Comments on: Installing PostgreSQL on Leopard using MacPorts

By: Adam Christensen

Adam Christensen — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:05:59 +0000

@Insulinwof – I don’t think I remember seeing the macports error before. Just as a shot in the dark, did you have macports installed on OSX 10.5 and then upgrade to 10.6?

By: Insulinwof

Insulinwof — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:33:40 +0000

these instructions worked great for me. many thanks.

question: could you do something similar for upgrade to 8.4.2 via ports? i have no idea how to do this right.

also: any idea why i’m getting this when i try to do selfupdate:

dlopen(/Library/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib, 10): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
while executing
“load /Library/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib”
(“package ifneeded macports 1.0″ script)
invoked from within
“package require macports”
(file “/opt/local/bin/port” line 39)

By: Sean Schofield

Sean Schofield — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:04:01 +0000

Thanks for the tip re:gem install/compile with mac ports.

By: Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:11:55 +0000

If you have older MacPorts you have to do a Macports update

sudo port selfupdate

HTH

Warren

By: josh

josh — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:14:10 +0000

i was having problems with this and then i tried installing the ruby-pg gem instead. also using macports on snow leopard your arch will be x86_64 and not i386.

sudo env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ gem install –remote ruby-pg

By: Blake

Blake — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:57:54 +0000

I was running into issues getting Postgres working nicely with GeoDjango and postgis, and found this tutorial very helpful. Postgres has GIS and spatial mapping capabilities that I am now beginning to explore. The tutorial here is the perfect complement for those interested in hooking Postgres to Django and GeoDjango on Mac OS X.
If interested, check out:
http://geodjango.org/docs/install.html

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By: gabe

gabe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:13:22 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial! it helped a lot!

Now to figure out pgAdmin…

By: Ceres

Ceres — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:05:41 +0000

Thanks for this. It helped a lot.

By: cult hero

cult hero — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:23:21 +0000

Thanks for this guide. I’ve been experimenting with getting the Postgres gem to work with Ruby 1.9.1 and while I got it working fine on Ubuntu, getting it to work on OS X was a little bit more complicated. Thanks to your guide, a slightly modified step did the trick:

sudo env ARCHFLAGS=’-arch i386′ POSTGRES_INCLUDE=’/opt/local/include/postgresql83′ POSTGRES_LIB=’/opt/local/lib/postgresql83′ ruby extconf.rb

(Since I had to modify extconf.rb, libpq-compat.c and postgres.c somewhat I have to do the build steps manually, running “gem” overwrites all my changes.)