Apple shipped the PostgreSQL client libraries and related files in Lion. If you install Server, you will get the postgres backend, too. I have been able to get it running on Lion client by copying the postgres server and one or two other files to client. If you want details, let me know.
Aaron On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Nathan Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I saw that... It basically says to give up and install your own > PostgreSQL. Surely Apple isn't so retarded as to deliver a crippled > PostgreSQL installation, forcing you to install your own! I've googled this > till my fingertips bled but haven't found how to enable what's been delivered > with the system. Surely there's a way! > > > On Mar 20, 2012, at 9:55 AM, LuKreme wrote: > >> http://od-eon.com/blogs/calvin/os-x-lion-postgresql/ >> >> -- >> Siri says this is a signature. >> >> On Mar 20, 2012, at 10:36, Nathan Sims <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I just upgraded a OSX 10.6.8 system to Lion 10.7.3. Supposedly Lion comes >>> with PostgreSQL 9.1.1 preinstalled. How do you enable/activate/launch it? >>> There are no postgres processes running on the system. >>> >>> $ psql -d postgres -U postgres >>> psql: could not connect to server: Permission denied >>> Is the server running locally and accepting >>> connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacOSX-admin mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-admin mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
