On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Tom Allison wrote:
Relatively simple question that I hope doesn't start too much "Flame".
I have recently had the opportunity to reformat my macbook hard
drive, many thanks to suggestions from the actual Apple support
team. That's not why I'm writing to the postgres group... But it's
related.
I have a fresh slate from which to build my development platform!!
I can get postgresql installed in three flavors:
EnterpriseDB has a dmg package for Mac.
macports has their own package.
fink also has their own package.
There's also http://www.postgresqlformac.com/ and I think one or two
others.
I was using macports but got into a cluster-F on versions and
multiple installs. After a spell I had all four versions 8.0 - 8.3
installed in order to use postgres, ruby, perl, and rails together.
I'm interesting in knowing if this can be avoided by selecting one
of the alternative sources of installation. Any experiences with
differences in installation and long term management from these
sources?
I'm more accustomed to using Linux for PostgreSQL, but in this
situation Linux probably won't be my development arena but test/
prod. In the Linux environment I've had great success in getting
migrations, upgrades, and languages to play well with PostgreSQL
without the multi version issue.
I usually install postgresql from source on my macbook. I'm using it
for development, rather than production, so I don't have it starting
automatically via launchd, just start it with pg_ctl manually when I
need it.
Installing from source means I can avoid the fragility of macports or
fink, and know that I've built it in much the same way as the
postgresql or solaris installation I'd be using for production.
I didn't know about the EnterpriseDB dmg, though. I'll take a look at
that.
Cheers,
Steve
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