[Gnumed-devel] Re: Postgresql installation on OS X

[Dave Cramer]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jim Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> the following is still re Enterprisedb
>
> On 2010-06-30, at 5:31 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
>>> I have a client who is having some trouble with the binary for OS X
>>
>> /Library/LaunchDaemons/
>
> Thanks Dave. I did locate, in the above,
>
>        /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.edb.launchd.postgresql-8.4.plist
>
> re the following, which I broke by deleting the old postgres directory
>
>        sudo SystemStarter start PostgreSQL
>
> I now understand Mac OS X "SystemStarter" to be deprecated
>        
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/SystemStarter.8.html
>
> so I can happily learn more about how the launch daemon is managed.
>
>>> Where does the installer put the startup item, and where does it put
>>> the binaries, data ?
>>
>> By default, under /Library/PostgreSQL/X.Y/ and
>> /Library/PostgreSQL/X.Y/data, but those locations are options in the
>> installer so the user may have changed them.
>
> no, I left them as above. Contained therein include
>
>        /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/scripts/start.applescript
>        /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/scripts/stop.applescript
>
> which work.. the "start" script contains
>        set ret to do shell script "su - postgres -c 
> \"/Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_ctl start -w -D 
> /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/data\" > /tmp/pgmsg.txt 2>&1" with administrator 
> privileges
>
> so I can likely run further than I believed, with enterprisedb :-) ...
>

I'm wondering if we shouldn't just make our own package ???

How hard can it be?

Dave