Re: Problems with pgAdmin 4 on MacBook Pro running macOS BigSur 11.2.3

[Dave Page]

Hi

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 3:31 PM Tom East  wrote:

> Hi, I'm attempting to install Postgres 13.2 on my MacBook Pro.  When I
> start *pgAdmin 4, *it appears to quit immediately.  I found this in the
> Installation Notes:
>
> pgAdmin 4 v4.x on macOS BigSur
>
> There is a known issue of pgAdmin freezing on launch on macOS BigSur
> because of a bug in Qt 5.13 and 5.14 versions. Till this issue is fixed,
> the work-around for this is to set the variable QT_MAC_WANTS_LAYER.
>

pgAdmin removed the Qt dependency in v5.0. I'd suggest installing the
standalone build of pgAdmin from www.pgadmin.org until the PostgreSQL
installers catch up. It'll happily live alongside your existing
installation.

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Problems with pgAdmin 4 on MacBook Pro running macOS BigSur 11.2.3

[Tom East]

Hi, I'm attempting to install Postgres 13.2 on my MacBook Pro.  When I start 
pgAdmin 4, it appears to quit immediately.  I found this in the Installation 
Notes:

pgAdmin 4 v4.x on macOS BigSur

There is a known issue of pgAdmin freezing on launch on macOS BigSur because of 
a bug in Qt 5.13 and 5.14 versions. Till this issue is fixed, the work-around 
for this is to set the variable QT_MAC_WANTS_LAYER.

How and where do I set this variable?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Tom East


Tom East, GISP

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