Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server

2013-01-28 Thread David Salisbury
On 1/28/13 1:05 PM, François Beausoleil wrote: I would stay away from MacPorts. Gotta agree on that one. The last time I have been working with PostgreSQL on MacOS X, I used the installer from http://www.postgresqlformac.com/ There's also a different approach, that I've never tried:

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server

2013-01-28 Thread François Beausoleil
Le 2013-01-28 à 14:47, Wolfgang Keller a écrit : >> I have installed and configured PostgreSQL on Windows, FreeBSD, and a >> few Linux flavors, but never OSX. I have the basic directions >> (http://www.enterprisedb.com/resources-community/pginst-guide) and >> found a couple of articles / blogs,

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server

2013-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I have installed and configured PostgreSQL on Windows, FreeBSD, and a > few Linux flavors, but never OSX. I have the basic directions > (http://www.enterprisedb.com/resources-community/pginst-guide) and > found a couple of articles / blogs, but really I'm not an Apple guy > so I don't want to m

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server

2013-01-28 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jan 28, 2013, at 8:47 AM, Stephen Cook wrote: > On 1/28/2013 11:15 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: >> You're not planning on using this in production, I hope? OS X is a very >> solid desktop OS, but it's server variant is packed full of weird and plain >> broken behaviour. >> > > Ouch. These are

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server

2013-01-28 Thread Stephen Cook
On 1/28/2013 11:15 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: You're not planning on using this in production, I hope? OS X is a very solid desktop OS, but it's server variant is packed full of weird and plain broken behaviour. Ouch. These are the servers they have and use, I don't really get a say in that.

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server

2013-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Atkins writes: > OS X doesn't have readline installed, it has libedit. Libedit is poor > compared to readline, and the OS X installed version of libedit was, for > years, hideously broken such that tab completion would cause SEGVs. It might > have been fixed in the latest releases, or it

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server

2013-01-28 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jan 28, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Stephen Cook wrote: > Hello! > > I have convinced a client to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL (hooray), which > means it falls on me to install and configure it. I'm planning on doing this > from the command line (I have SSH access). > > I have installed and conf

[GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server

2013-01-28 Thread Stephen Cook
Hello! I have convinced a client to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL (hooray), which means it falls on me to install and configure it. I'm planning on doing this from the command line (I have SSH access). I have installed and configured PostgreSQL on Windows, FreeBSD, and a few Linux flavors,