Comments on: installing postgresql 8.2 on Leopard with macports

By: Al Brown

Al Brown — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:42:39 +0000

slight misspelling here, should be postgres, not portgres:

sudo port -v install portgresql82-server

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:53:08 +0000

@Em
Thanks for your reply.
I think I understand now: the user (or role how it is called in PostgreSQL) named “takizo”, which is used two lines later, was created interactively during this step. That was the missing link for me.

By: Em

Em — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:28:46 +0000

@Victor

The postgres user does already exist in the OS at that point. The createuser command is for creating users (technically roles) within postgresql itself. After running the command it prompts for the name of the role if you do not specify it on the command line.

Here is a URL for the full documentation of the command:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/app-createuser.html

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:29:54 +0000

Thanks for this posting, it saved my day (ehm… night). Especially the selfupdate of MacPorts at the beginning, I would have given up because it was some months old and it did not find any PgSQL sources anymore.

I have a question on the first “createuser” call: is there something missing, the user name? Because at that point the postgres user should already exist…

[…]
> /opt/local/lib/postgresql82/bin/createuser -s -d -r -P […here???…]
> exit # quit as postgres user
[…]

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By: ram

ram — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:28:35 +0000

in the installing time what i write in the password box