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Ask HN: Seeking the ultimate definitive guide to installing postgres on OSX
Usually whenever Postgres stops working I feel like I'm bumping around in a dark room in working to understand what is actually going on and a process to apply a fix myself.
A year ago I asked a question on stackoverflow as I was having problems with postgres, since then the
question has had over 15,000 views.
If someone would be willing to write up a definitive guide explaining core concepts of why things go bad and how to diagnose these issues yourself I'm sure it will get lots of views.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472988/postgres-could-not-connect-to-server-no-such-file-or-directory
[edit] Here is a more pithy discussion on the problem:
http://blog.ringerc.id.au/2012/09/postgresql-packaging-on-mac-os-x-is-mess.html?m=1
- laveur 13y agojust download postgress.app
- evolve2k 13y agoPostress.app introduces another copy of Postgres to the OS. May make things simpler but still leaves you clueless as to what is going. Thanks for the suggestion though :)
- ClickyBot 13y agoclickys: http://blog.ringerc.id.au/2012/09/postgresql-packaging-on-mac-os-x-is-mess.html?m=1 http://blog.ringerc.id.au/2012/09/postgresql-packaging-on-ma..., http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472988/postgres-could-not-connect-to-server-no-such-file-or-directory http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472988/postgres-could-n...
- styts 13y agoI have installed it with homebrew several times, just pay attention to the instructions of the "brew install postgres" command.