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Thats interesting, I've never had an issue with the homebrew installation. The readme details 1 or 2 lines to get everything set up for the first time. I supp

• skndr 13y ago
  > I suppose osx built-in installation may cause conflicts. This is a consistent source of trouble when installing Postgres. Usually, this involves looking up the right places to modify the path and sometimes needing to change permissions/ports.
• misiti3780 13y ago
  here is the one I was having, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472988/postgres-could-not-connect-to-server-no-such-file-or-directory http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472988/postgres-could-n... postgres app fixed it
• darthdeus 13y ago
  To be honest I've spent about 4 hours last week trying to install homebrew PostgreSQL on a friends MacBook ... it took me forever to figure out why it wasn't connecting to the right socket, just because he had some things out of date :\ While it is really easy to install most of the time, I'd say the Postgres.app works well for people who aren't developers but need to use PostgreSQL.
  • chourobin 13y ago
    Did you see the post installation instructions to initialize a db? initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8 Also if you are working with rails, add host: localhost in your database.yml file and remove the user password. That should be all you need.