Install Postgres for Mac OS X: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:12, 1 September 2010

install MAMP package in order to have a ready to use Apache web server.
download the Mac OSX Postgres package one click installer
run the installer, the installer tells you it changed a system file.
restart your Mac
run the installer a second time, Postgres gets installed. Remember the password you entered. If you don't change anything else, the default user should be called 'postgres'.
run pgAdminIII
click right on PostgreSQL X.X (there is a little red cross) and select Connect
enter the same password as you enter during the installation.
click right on 'Databases (0)' then create a new database called Moodle

checkout Moodle from CVS, run the installation
on the database setup, you will enter:
- host: localhost
- user: postgres
- password: your_password
- database: Moodle

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 # run the installer, the installer tells you it changed a system file.
 # restart your Mac
-# run the installer a second time, Postgres get installed. Remember the password you indicates. If you don't change anything else, the default user should be called 'postgres'.
+# run the installer a second time, Postgres gets installed. Remember the password you entered. If you don't change anything else, the default user should be called 'postgres'.
 # run pgAdminIII
 # click right on PostgreSQL X.X (there is a little red cross) and select Connect