installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1

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 considered as 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 look at one of the other distros and use 8.2.5.

Regards, Dave