Installing PostgreSQL on Mac OS X
Suggest editsEDB provides MacOS installers for PostgreSQL on the EDB downloads page. These installers simplify setting up a system.
For a detailed walk-through of the installation process on Mac OS, see this tutorial.
Command-line tools
After installing PostgreSQL, you can run command-line tools by referencing them in the bin
directory under the installation path you specified during installation. For example, to run psql
from the default installation directory, enter:
For ease of use, you can add this directory to your PATH
by adding a line to your ~/.bash_profile
. If using zsh, add it instead to ~/.zshrc
.
This step is especially important if you plan to use scripts or other software that rely on PostgreSQL tools, such as Python's psycopg2
. You can instead add this directory to the system path.
Several other options for installing PostgreSQL on MacOS offer varying levels of flexibility, version support, add-ons, and so on. You find more details on the PostgreSQL website.
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- Command-line tools
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