Обсуждение: Re: problems installing postgresql 8.0 on Mac OS

Hello People,

My (belated) thanks to John DeSoi & Tom Lane for their
responses to my earlier
query.

I have uninstalled the old postgres 8.0 via FinkCommander,
and downloaded
the 8.2.4 binaries from the sourceforge website that John
suggested. The
installer seemed to run fine, but afterward I find that
there are no postgres
files in my /sw/ directory. It has installed files in
/Applications/ instead, but I
suspect they are just gui front-ends.

At this website <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.4>
there are two
links describing how to install postgres on mac os x, but
unfortunately neither
seem to fit my circumstances. Both use source rather than
binaries. Both show
./configure commands that will only work if I first have
postgres installed
either at /usr/local/src/ (which I believe is not a valid
path) or /users/shared/,
but I don't see any way for ./configure to work even if I
pointed it at /
Applications/PostgreSQL\ Folder/.

1. What am I doing wrong?
2. Is this the right forum in which to ask?
3. Are there better sources of information/guides for
directions on how to
install postgres on mac os 10.3.9?
4. Should I also uninstall the postgres I got from
sourceforge, & try again with
source files rather than binaries? That way it at least
might begin to more
closely fit with the installation instructions at
<http://www.postgresql.org/
docs/techdocs.4>, although I doubt a perfect fit is possible
given the
variations & perhaps dated nature of those documents.

TIA,

Joe

On Jun 11, 2007, at 7:52 PM, jbar@es.co.nz wrote:

> The
> installer seemed to run fine, but afterward I find that
> there are no postgres
> files in my /sw/ directory. It has installed files in
> /Applications/ instead, but I
> suspect they are just gui front-ends.


/sw is just for Fink, so I would expect nothing to go there unless
you are using Fink.

Which package did you download from sourceforge? I notice there are
several variations and some might only have the client tools. It
looks like you want the "PostgreSQL Unified Installer".

I downloaded the startup item package. It appears to install the
server in /Library folder. Here is the startup line:

su -m postgres -c '/Library/PostgreSQL8/bin/pg_ctl start -D /Library/
PostgreSQL8/data -l /Library/PostgreSQL8/log/PostgreSQL8.log -o -i'


>  Both use source rather than
> binaries. Both show
> ./configure commands that will only work if I first have
> postgres installed
> either at /usr/local/src/ (which I believe is not a valid
> path) or /users/shared/,
> but I don't see any way for ./configure to work even if I
> pointed it at /
> Applications/PostgreSQL\ Folder/.

It does not matter where you put the source to compile it. Just
change to the directory where the source is. And you can have it put
the binaries wherever you want if you provide the --prefix option to
make.

If you don't have Apple's developer tools installed (required to
build from source), I suggest you ask sourceforge project admins for
help on their list or forum. They just put out a new version, so I'm
sure they would be interested to know if there are problems.

John




John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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