Overall, I found the whole setup pretty painless, definitely simpler than setting up a local Postgres database on my Mac Have you tried http://postgresapp.com/

Overall, I found the whole setup pretty painless, definitely simpler than setting up a local Postgres database on my Mac Have you tried http://postgresapp.com/ http://postgresapp.com/ ? Doesn't get much easier than that. Btw., depending on your geo needs it might sometimes be simpler to use earthdistance instead of PostGIS: https://gist.github.com/norman/1535879 https://gist.github.com/norman/1535879 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/earthdistance.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/earthdistance.html