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What do you want? If it's not homebrew, but also not an app, what does that leave? A pkg? Not really a step up from the other two. Or just a tarball with th
by Tyr42 14y ago
What do you want? If it's not homebrew, but also not an app, what does that leave? A pkg? Not really a step up from the other two. Or just a tarball with the source?
- Someone 14y agoI agree it is not a bright question, but there is a third option: upgrade to Mac OS X Server. It apparently has a command-line PostgreSQL installation.
- Aqua_Geek 14y agoThat seems a bit overkill just to get Postgres installed.
- pbreit 14y agoYeah, sorry, probably a dumb comment. As somewhat of a sys admin newbie, it struck me as unfortunate that there wasn't something already available. I generally don't like installing things because I'm not sure what's being done and if I can easily and completely uninstall. But Brew is relatively safe?
- jasomill 14y agoNo safer than any other method of running arbitrary code under your user account, or than any other package management tool with reasonable conventions about where it installs software. If your goal is something that can easily and obviously be uninstalled completely, the App Store version sounds like exactly what you're looking for; Apple is pretty strict about what an App Store app can and can't do outside its sandbox. Otherwise, I've been using the binary installers from PostgreSQL.org on OS X for years, and they work fine. They install everything into /Library/PostgreSQL, so they're self-contained, and the server starts/stops/can be set to auto-start easily with launchctl.