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PostGres on Mac OS X Tiger

posted 19 June 2005, Sunday
Install Postgres on MAC OS X
This install above makes use of fink. If you are NOT familiar with fink read this

Simple Instructions

Setup User Postgres without admin rights.
Initialize: initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
Start the postmaster process: postmaster -S -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

Grant access to psgacct: createuser psgacct ON Restart of PostGres
echo "Starting postgres..."
rm -f /tmp/.s.PGSQL.*
su postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -S -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"

I know its quick but this all the time i could spare...

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