Monday 9 July 2018

Complete Postgres installation step by step

Homebrew is a popular package manager for OS X. To install Postgres with Homebrew, follow the steps below: The first thing to do is install Homebrew if you haven’t done so already. Homebrew site has a simple command that you have to paste in your terminal to do so. Make sure to accept the command line developer tools installation if prompted. Next, run brew install postgres to install Postgres. It might take a little while to compile and install. After compilation is done, it’ll give you some instructions to finish setting it up. The database will be initialized during installation, so there isn’t a need to run initdb to finish installation of Postgres via Homebrew. Near the end of the installation instructions you should see mention of the command brew services. If you don’t already have brew services installed. It may be installed with this command: brew services stop/start postgresql createuser -s postgres

Remove previous versions of PostgreSQL

brew uninstall --force postgresql
Delete all Files of Postgres

rm -rf /usr/local/var/postgres
Install Postgres using Homebrew

brew install postgres
Start Postgres

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

or

brew services stop/start postgresql

download pgAdmin https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/pgadmin/pgadmin4/v2.0/macos/
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