{"id":4489,"date":"2012-11-13T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T03:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2012-11-13T19:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T03:32:22","slug":"a-rosetta-stone-for-mac-os-x-installers-for-postgresql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/13\/a-rosetta-stone-for-mac-os-x-installers-for-postgresql\/","title":{"rendered":"A rosetta stone for Mac OS X installers for PostgreSQL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/13\/a-mostly-working-lenovo-x230-running-ubuntu-and-gnome3-two-weeks-later\/\">no longer using Mac OS X for my primary desktop<\/a>, but many of my coworkers and friends do. Particularly developers writing applications that use PostgreSQL (aka Postgres) for their data storage.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot time over the last few years troubleshooting people&#8217;s Postgres installs in the following, very common, situations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A developer installed Postgres on their Mac laptop >1 year ago<\/li>\n<li>Now they need to upgrade their Postgres to help me, or support a new application that needs new features<\/li>\n<li>They have an old database they&#8217;d like to migrate to the new version<\/li>\n<li>They have no idea which particular Mac OS X installer they used last time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For this exact situation, I have documented some features of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.postgresql.org\/wiki\/Installers\/Mac_OS_X\">Mac OS X Installers for Postgres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, I felt so good to see this right after I posted the wiki page earlier today: <\/p>\n<p>@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zacduncan\/status\/268467215853056000\">zacduncan<\/a>: &#8220;@selenamarie This is helpful to me at this very moment. Thank you. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\\o\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no longer using Mac OS X for my primary desktop, but many of my coworkers and friends do. Particularly developers writing applications that use PostgreSQL (aka Postgres) for their data storage. I&#8217;ve spent a lot time over the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/13\/a-rosetta-stone-for-mac-os-x-installers-for-postgresql\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgresql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}