Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-08 Thread Owen Hartnett
At 7:51 PM -0500 11/7/08, Tom Allison wrote: adam_pgsql wrote: When I do the install script in contrib it says I have no rights to the directory. It was in /usr/local/pgsql/data/log and I changed it to /usr/local/pgsql/log. It was set as root.wheel with 755 permissions so I suspect it's mad

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-07 Thread Tom Allison
adam_pgsql wrote: When I do the install script in contrib it says I have no rights to the directory. It was in /usr/local/pgsql/data/log and I changed it to /usr/local/pgsql/log. It was set as root.wheel with 755 permissions so I suspect it's mad at me because the postgres user was left in t

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-05 Thread Shane Ambler
Tom Allison wrote: It confirms what I'm working through. crt1.o located at /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/lib/crt1.o crt1.10.5.0 at /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/lib/crt1.10.5.o So I'm trying to find how to get these directories included in the compilation. I thought --with-libs and

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-05 Thread adam_pgsql
When I do the install script in contrib it says I have no rights to the directory. It was in /usr/local/pgsql/data/log and I changed it to /usr/local/pgsql/log. It was set as root.wheel with 755 permissions so I suspect it's mad at me because the postgres user was left in the cold. Have

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-05 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: Scott Ribe wrote: 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. The question is *why* the location is nonstandard. Starting with Xcode 3, all the developer tools get installed under the Developer directory, in order to allow one to easily have multiple versions of Xcode inst

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Allison
Scott Ribe wrote: 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. The question is *why* the location is nonstandard. Starting with Xcode 3, all the developer tools get installed under the Developer directory, in order to allow one to easily have multiple versions of Xcode installed alongside each o

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Ribe
>> 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. > > The question is *why* the location is nonstandard. Starting with Xcode 3, all the developer tools get installed under the Developer directory, in order to allow one to easily have multiple versions of Xcode installed alongside each other. The ques

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Lane wrote: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all non-standard. 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. The question is *why* the location is no

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread A.M.
On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all non-standard. 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. The que

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Steve Atkins
On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Tom Allison wrote: I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all non-standard. 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. It's in /usr/bin/make on my OS X box (as well

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. > It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all > non-standard. > 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. The question is *why* the location is nonstandard.

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Allison
Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote: On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: I feel good about control here, and I certainly don't have any problems. So, please don't whine :) Especially since I want to run cvs head, and be able to actually u

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: >> >> I feel good about control here, and I certainly don't have any problems. >> So, please don't whine :) >> Especially since I want to run cvs head, and be able to actually update it >> from cvs w

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Niklas Johansson
On 4 nov 2008, at 11.21, Tom Allison wrote: I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all non-standard. 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. That's not right. It should definately live in /

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Allison
Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: I feel good about control here, and I certainly don't have any problems. So, please don't whine :) Especially since I want to run cvs head, and be able to actually update it from cvs when I want to, that's the only choice. Postgresql is so easy to get from sources, co

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-30 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
I feel good about control here, and I certainly don't have any problems. So, please don't whine :) Especially since I want to run cvs head, and be able to actually update it from cvs when I want to, that's the only choice. Postgresql is so easy to get from sources, compared to other software packag

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-29 Thread Tom Allison
Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: I use postgresql on MBP, current head, for testing and development. Just from sources, it won't bite :) you just have to add user postgres to your system, place $PGDATA wherever you feel you should, and you're done. Yes. I actually started using Nix from Slackwa

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-29 Thread Isak Hansen
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was using macports but got into a cluster-F on versions and multiple > installs. After a spell I had all four versions 8.0 - 8.3 installed in > order to use postgres, ruby, perl, and rails together. I use apple's ruby, b

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-29 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
I use postgresql on MBP, current head, for testing and development. Just from sources, it won't bite :) you just have to add user postgres to your system, place $PGDATA wherever you feel you should, and you're done.

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-29 Thread Niklas Johansson
On 28 okt 2008, at 23.41, Tom Allison wrote: I can get postgresql installed in three flavors: EnterpriseDB has a dmg package for Mac. macports has their own package. fink also has their own package. You also have the fourth, most delicious flavor: build it yourself; PostgreSQL compiles nicel

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread David Wilson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: >> >> Installing from source means I can avoid the fragility of macports or >> fink, and know that I've built it in much the same way as the postgresql or >> solaris installat

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Allison
Niklas Johansson wrote: On 28 okt 2008, at 23.41, Tom Allison wrote: I was using macports but got into a cluster-F on versions and multiple installs. After a spell I had all four versions 8.0 - 8.3 installed in order to use postgres, ruby, perl, and rails together. Do you mean that Macports

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread Christophe
On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: Installing from source means I can avoid the fragility of macports or fink, and know that I've built it in much the same way as the postgresql or solaris installation I'd be using for production. +1 It means I can easily pick the contrib mod

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread Niklas Johansson
On 28 okt 2008, at 23.41, Tom Allison wrote: I can get postgresql installed in three flavors: EnterpriseDB has a dmg package for Mac. macports has their own package. fink also has their own package. You also have the fourth, most delicious flavor: build it yourself; PostgreSQL compiles nicel

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Tom Allison wrote: Relatively simple question that I hope doesn't start too much "Flame". I have recently had the opportunity to reformat my macbook hard drive, many thanks to suggestions from the actual Apple support team. That's not why I'm writing to the po