Comments on: Installing PostgreSQL on Snow Leopard 10.6

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:32:26 +0000

By the way, you might want to mention that /etc/profile is only for bash. If you’re using Z shell, then it’s /etc/zprofile. (I’d guess that ksh, csh, and tcsh, all have their own files as well, though I don’t know if anyone uses those much anymore.)

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:08:23 +0000

I’m not able to find PATH= in the /etc/profile

Like susan above, here is my profile text:

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
[ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi

However, unlike her I do not have another profile folder that I can find.

Any thoughts?

By: Greg Benedict

Greg Benedict — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:23:15 +0000

Check out the pg_dumpall command.

By: Leo

Leo — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:26:40 +0000

Hi Greg, I installed postgresql8.3 per your instructions above and didn’t have any problems. However, i need to move my database to another harddrive but can’t find where the actual database files are stored. do you what the best way to move the database is? thanks.

By: Art

Art — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:38:01 +0000

How do I get my database to startup automatically? It’s hard to keep looking up what the start commands are.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:56:18 +0000

Final got it working! I edited the .bash_profile file and included the path info there. Works great. Plus had to do a few other details listed above.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:10:00 +0000

When i type psql83 on the commend line i get an error message with my username ram database does not exist. So i type psql83 default and i get default db does not exist.

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By: Waldo

Waldo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:32:57 +0000

I’ll suggest if you think you have *any* 32 bit code running on an Xserve Snow Leopard machine, modify your macports configuration to force x86 (not x86_64) code building. Here’s a link to a problem I ran into with a database that was built and used under 32 bit postgres (under Leopard) and then I introduced a 64bit postgres (under Snow Leopoard). http://bit.ly/2avz9j

By: omnivore

omnivore — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:55:26 +0000

Answering my own question:

env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ gem install pg

did the trick…

Thanks for a great article…