Re: postgresql installation
Michael Thon <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.opendarwin.darwinports |
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On Aug 3, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote: > Dr. Thon, ^^^ Hmm, someone's been doing some googleing eh? :) > > 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/ > > There's actually three postgresql ports. I suppose this is so people can have their choice of flavors. > 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? yes indeed it was! cheers M > > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Darwinports mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/darwinports >> > _______________________________________________ > Darwinports mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/darwinports