Обсуждение: installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1
Hello, What is the best way to install PostgreSQL on Mac OS X 10.5.1? Or, perhaps I should ask is there a preferred way to PostgreSQL on Mac OS X? Is a disk image installer fine? Or, is it better to compile all the components? Is this installation perfectly fine? http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/software:postgres PostGIS recommends Kyngesburye: http://www.postgis.org/download/ They also refer to Fink. Pat Maddox's blog recommends this approach: <http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/10/28/installing-postgres-8-2-on-leopard-includes-system-account> Apple recommends Fink: http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/postgres.html The 'Robby on Rails' blog recommends MacPorts: <http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/06/19/installing-ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql-on-os-x-second-edition> Here's another installation (this is out-of-date): http://www.psyex.com/techdocs/pgonx.html Is there a clear "answer" for installation? Is the answer, "it depends?" Does all of this also apply to a Mac OS X 10.4.x machine? Should I just use the single click DMG from Kyngesburye and optionally install PostGIS? That looks like the easiest approach. Or, Should I use MacPorts or Fink? Thanks and happy holidays, Chuck
On 22 dec 2007, at 06.56, Chuck wrote: > What is the best way to install PostgreSQL on Mac OS X 10.5.1? > Or, perhaps I should ask is there a preferred way to PostgreSQL on > Mac OS X? > > Is a disk image installer fine? Or, is it better to compile all the > components? I've always installed from source and I've never been sorry. Haven't tried it on Leopard yet though. There's no reason to believe that the various binary installers should be worse than a source install, but since I've never tried them I really can't tell. Compiling from source is a good way to get to know both your OS and Postgres better. Sincerely, Niklas Johansson
Chuck wrote: > Hello, > > What is the best way to install PostgreSQL on Mac OS X 10.5.1? > Or, perhaps I should ask is there a preferred way to PostgreSQL on Mac > OS X? Well I can't say this (or any other) is a 'preferred' way, but you might want to try the EnterpriseDB Postgres installer if you're will to run 8.3 beta until the full release: http://postgres.enterprisedb.com/download.do It works pretty well even if (as the author) I do say so myself :-) Regards, Dave
At 11:03 AM +0000 12/22/07, Dave Page wrote: >Chuck wrote: >>Hello, >> >>What is the best way to install PostgreSQL on Mac OS X 10.5.1? >>Or, perhaps I should ask is there a preferred way to PostgreSQL on Mac OS X? > >Well I can't say this (or any other) is a 'preferred' way, but you >might want to try the EnterpriseDB Postgres installer if you're will >to run 8.3 beta until the full release: > >http://postgres.enterprisedb.com/download.do > >It works pretty well even if (as the author) I do say so myself :-) > >Regards, Dave Dave, Thanks. If I take this approach will it be straightforward to upgrade from one beta to the next (assuming that there will be more betas) then to upgrade to the release version? Will I be able to use the EnterpriseDB Postgres installer for the release version? I'm initially using Postgres for Mingle (with less than 5 users). http://studios.thoughtworks.com/ Later, I expect to make use of PostGIS. Chuck
> ------- Original Message ------- > From: Chuck <chuckr@velofish.com> > To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> > Sent: 22/12/07, 18:51:09 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1 > > Thanks. If I take this approach will it be straightforward to upgrade > from one beta to the next (assuming that there will be more betas) > then to upgrade to the release version? Will I be able to use the > EnterpriseDB Postgres installer for the release version? Yes, the installer supports minor version upgrades. The only exception would be if an initdb forced again before release(as happened between beta3 & beta4), but the community try not to do that this close to release. If it does though,a dump/reload would be required. Do remember that it's currently a beta, and until that changes (which should be early next year) shouldn't be consideredas ready for production use. Regards, Dave
At 7:08 PM +0000 12/22/07, Dave Page wrote: > > ------- Original Message ------- >> From: Chuck <chuckr@velofish.com> >> To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> >> Sent: 22/12/07, 18:51:09 >> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1 >> >> Thanks. If I take this approach will it be straightforward to upgrade >> from one beta to the next (assuming that there will be more betas) >> then to upgrade to the release version? Will I be able to use the >> EnterpriseDB Postgres installer for the release version? > >Yes, the installer supports minor version upgrades. The only >exception would be if an initdb forced again before release (as >happened between beta3 & beta4), but the community try not to do >that this close to release. If it does though, a dump/reload would >be required. okay, that seems fine. >Do remember that it's currently a beta, and until that changes >(which should be early next year) shouldn't be considered as ready >for production use. Yes, thanks for the reminder. I'm using this as a private in-house database for about 5 people. If there's a very serious bug in 8.3, I'm assuming the I could uninstall 8.3 then install 8.2.5 (assuming that I'm not using any 8.3 features). Thanks again, Chuck
> ------- Original Message ------- > From: Chuck <chuckr@velofish.com> > To: "Dave Page" <dpage@postgresql.org> > Sent: 22/12/07, 19:21:21 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1 > > Yes, thanks for the reminder. I'm using this as a private in-house > database for about 5 people. If there's a very serious bug in 8.3, > I'm assuming the I could uninstall 8.3 then install 8.2.5 (assuming > that I'm not using any 8.3 features). > That can be tricky to do and may not work. If you are looking to go into production immediately, you should probably lookat one of the other distros and use 8.2.5. Regards, Dave