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#POSTGRESQL FOR MAC OS MAC OS#

With that in mind, it is time to set up all required Pear packages needed by MySource Matrix. Bear in mind that MySource Matrix only suppports PHP4 at this stage.Unpack and drop it into your /Applications folder.To download it, go to and download just the standard MAMP. Instead of messing around with Apple’s pre-installed versions of Apache, Pear and PHP, you can drop the MAMP bundle into your /Applications folder which will have most things we need already neatly set up for you.Follow instructions on by using your recently installed postgres tools located in /Library/PostgreSQL8/bin.For now, all you need to do is ensure that the postgres daemon has started. You can also run "./pg_ctl -help" for other options which you can use to control your installation of postgres.

Library/PostgreSQL8/data is where this installation of postgres keeps its database directory.

Still in terminal, navigate to /Library/PostgreSQL8/bin and type "./pg_ctl start -D …/data".

Before you can use any of these postgres commands, you will need to switch to the postgres user by typing, "su - postgres". The postgres unified installer sets up all required users on your Mac system.

If it is, great - you can proceed to the next section.

Navigate to terminal and check to see if postgres is currently running by using "top".

It will also plant itself in /Library/StartupItems but you can delete the instance there if you do not want it to start up with Mac OS. It will install PostgreSQL into /Library/PostgreSQL8 which is not unix-like but will still suffice for our purposes.

Unpack and run the Server installer (there is no need to unpack the Client or Developer files).

Download the unified installer from (found on the left hand nav pane about half way down the page).

Here are the steps I took to getting it working with this configuration.

#POSTGRESQL FOR MAC OS MAC OS#

I recently installed MySource Matrix for testing and development on a standard Mac OS 10.4 installation with MAMP and the PostgreSQL package at. Installation of MySource Matrix on Mac OS 10.4 with MAMP and PostgreSQL