Hello People, My (belated) thanks to John DeSoi & Tom Lane for their responses to my earlier query. I have uninstalled the old postgres 8.0 via FinkCommander, and downloaded the 8.2.4 binaries from the sourceforge website that John suggested. The installer seemed to run fine, but afterward I find that there are no postgres files in my /sw/ directory. It has installed files in /Applications/ instead, but I suspect they are just gui front-ends. At this website <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.4> there are two links describing how to install postgres on mac os x, but unfortunately neither seem to fit my circumstances. Both use source rather than binaries. Both show ./configure commands that will only work if I first have postgres installed either at /usr/local/src/ (which I believe is not a valid path) or /users/shared/, but I don't see any way for ./configure to work even if I pointed it at / Applications/PostgreSQL\ Folder/. 1. What am I doing wrong? 2. Is this the right forum in which to ask? 3. Are there better sources of information/guides for directions on how to install postgres on mac os 10.3.9? 4. Should I also uninstall the postgres I got from sourceforge, & try again with source files rather than binaries? That way it at least might begin to more closely fit with the installation instructions at <http://www.postgresql.org/ docs/techdocs.4>, although I doubt a perfect fit is possible given the variations & perhaps dated nature of those documents. TIA, Joe
