Re: postgresql installation

Dr. Thon,

There is a strange subtlety that you just brought to my attention. I didn't
even know that there was a postgresql81 port compared to the postgresql8
port (hmm ... seems a bit odd actually in terms of  name space conventions,
why would Darwin Ports postgresql8* maintainers do this?). If I had my
druthers, I would have just blasted away 8.1.3 in the "postgresql8" port and
replaced it with 8.1.4 since 8.1.4 is the current stable (non-beta) release
of PostgreSQL major version 8 according to the PostgreSQL web site <
http://www.postgresql.org/ >

Yesterday, from Darwin Ports 1.3.1 source (not CVS), I installed postgresql
8.1.3 via the "postgresql8" port in the proverbial /opt/local/* and the
executables can be found in:

/opt/local/lib/pgsql8/bin

Yeah, kind of quirky to put a "bin" directory nested inside a "lib"
grandparent directory but that's the way the ball bounces apparently.

Was this helpful?

T.

On 8/3/06, Michael Thon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings - I just installed postgresql81 and postgresql81-server but
> I cannot find some of the command line utilities that the postgresql
> documentation says should exist.  where are the createdb and
> createuser programs?
>
> Also, I started to install the pgAdmin3 package and it started to
> install postgresql8 (version 8.1.3).  can pgAdmin3 only be used with
> postgresql8?
>
> Is there any sort of tutorial that explains how to install and
> configure on postgresql on DP?
> thanks for your help
> Mike
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