Thank you so much, Adrian! You are most helpful. :-) I was up at 2 a.m. worrying about my project (just 2 weeks to complete), and by 10 a.m., after installing/uninstalling several times, started questioning everything. I needed a calm voice like yours to tell me that I might be weird, but not completely insane. Thank you, Diana > On 03/07/2015 09:52 AM, dpopova@xxxxxxx wrote: >> Adrian, >> >> I again wiped out everything postgres from my machine (Mac 10.10.2, >> Yosemite). Now, if I want to start installing postgres 9.3 anew, what is >> the best way to go for it? > > Aah, you anticipated the post I just sent. > >> I found PostgresApp, that promises the easiest way to start using >> postgres. Does it mean that if I install this PostgresApp for 9.3 (click >> on the link), it will install and run postgres 9.3? > > Yes: > > http://postgresapp.com/documentation/install.html > > "To install Postgres.app, just drag it to your Applications folder and > double click. > > On first launch, Postgres will initialise a new database cluster and > create a database for your username. A few moments after launching, you > should be able to click on "Open psql" to connect to the database. > > If you'd like to use the command line tools delivered with Postgres.app, > see the section on Command Line Tools." > >> Or I must first install postgres 9.3 by other means and only after that >> I >> can use PostgresApp for an easier access to postgres? > > No. >> >> Confused, >> >> Diana >> >> > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general