Chris- I have removed the second copy of postgres I had (postgres.app) and updated path variables in .bash_profile:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/share/python export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/bin/python export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.3.5_1/bin I don't think I should need the last line because /usr/local/bin/pg_config exists as an alias for /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.3.5_1/bin/pgconfig - do you think I am right? I have read that window apps may be unable to pick up environment variables. hence I added the below to the end of my .bash_profile launchctl setenv PATH $PATH But still Pycharm wasn't having it. So I have created /etc/launchd.conf and put this in it: launchctl setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/share/python:/usr/local/bin Andrea - yes I am using the virtualenv interpreter as the Pycharm project interpreter Now I am out of ideas..... It's quite maddening! Any advice appreciated. Thanks, Andy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list