PostgreSQL on Mac?

Rails
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Is there something like MAMP, but uses PostgreSQL instead? I found a
couple PostgreSQL dmg’s, but one was < 8.x. For those who use PostgreSQL
on Mac, how’d you install it (fink, package, please don’t say compile!)?

Thanks,
Joe

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On 24 Jun 2006, at 08:04, Joe R. wrote:

Is there something like MAMP, but uses PostgreSQL instead? I found a
couple PostgreSQL dmg’s, but one was < 8.x. For those who use
PostgreSQL
on Mac, how’d you install it (fink, package, please don’t say
compile!)?

Following the instructions at:

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/postgresql/

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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On Jun 24, 2006, at 15:04 , Joe R. wrote:

Is there something like MAMP, but uses PostgreSQL instead? I found a
couple PostgreSQL dmg’s, but one was < 8.x. For those who use
PostgreSQL
on Mac, how’d you install it (fink, package, please don’t say
compile!)?

There’s a PostgreSQL port available via Darwinports.

Michael G.
grzm seespotcode net

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Thanks for the replies everybody. I also found PostgreSQLX:

http://perso.orange.fr/bruno.gaufier/xhtml/prod_postgresql.xhtml

It’s just an app that you click to launch (yay), but it’s 7.x.

Joe

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On Jun 24, 2006, at 1:04 AM, Joe R. wrote:

Is there something like MAMP, but uses PostgreSQL instead? I found a
couple PostgreSQL dmg’s, but one was < 8.x. For those who use
PostgreSQL
on Mac, how’d you install it (fink, package, please don’t say
compile!)?

Thanks,
Joe

Try this

http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/05/29/install-ruby-rails-
and-postgresql-on-osx

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Joe,
look at this: Magic3ドキュメント , it’s only japanese, I
know…
and I can’t understand a word… but looking at the screenshoots it
seems
like a nice frontend gui for Postgresql 8.1.4 for Mac OS X (PPC and
Binary).

Let me know how it works if you have the courage I hadn’t to install it
on a
test machine!

Ettore

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http://www.nabble.com/PostgreSQL-on-Mac--t1839765.html#a5034625
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You can also take a look at EnterpriseDB. It’s Postgres with
extensions to make it handle Oracle PL/SQL better. Their main selling
point is they’ve added ‘Oracle compatibility’ to PostgreSQL. They have
an OS X version with a front end GUI but it’s 8.0.x and not 8.1.x …

If you decide to use it with Rails, be aware that it doesn’t have a
Unix domain socket that I am aware of and it uses port 5444 to
communicate. So you would have to use TCP/IP port 5444 in your
database.yml if you go this route …

– G.

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On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:04:06AM +0200, Joe R. wrote:
} Is there something like MAMP, but uses PostgreSQL instead? I found a
} couple PostgreSQL dmg’s, but one was < 8.x. For those who use
PostgreSQL
} on Mac, how’d you install it (fink, package, please don’t say
compile!)?

I just installed with fink, no sweat.

fink install postgresql81

} Thanks,
} Joe
–Greg

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On 6/24/06, Joe R. [email protected] wrote:

Is there something like MAMP, but uses PostgreSQL instead? I found a
couple PostgreSQL dmg’s, but one was < 8.x. For those who use PostgreSQL
on Mac, how’d you install it (fink, package, please don’t say compile!)?

I compiled it. It was trivial to do so, and the documentation on the
PostgreSQL site is pretty good.

– James