Re: [GENERAL] restart server on Lion

2012-02-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/01/12 4:55 PM, Scott Frankel wrote: I run PostgreSQL in a closed environment, for development and testing purposes, on my laptop. Installing a *-server package seemed overkill. Quite the contrary, that's exactly what I should've done from the beginning. fwiw, on many linux systems,

Re: [GENERAL] restart server on Lion

2012-02-01 Thread Scott Frankel
Hi all, Problem resolved. The postgres server now starts automatically when my OSX Lion machine reboots. Hopefully the following info will be useful for anyone contemplating a macports installation of PostgreSQL. The biggest impediment to getting the relaunch behavior I expected was from

[GENERAL] restart server on Lion

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Frankel
Hi all, What's the best/correct way to cause the PostgreSQL server to startup automatically when rebooting on OSX 10.7 Lion? I'm using a macports install of postgres 8.4 and went through a couple grueling days, sudo'd up to my eyeballs, to restore the postgres user and have a working

Re: [GENERAL] restart server on Lion

2012-01-30 Thread A.M.
On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Scott Frankel wrote: Hi all, What's the best/correct way to cause the PostgreSQL server to startup automatically when rebooting on OSX 10.7 Lion? I'm using a macports install of postgres 8.4 and went through a couple grueling days, sudo'd up to my

Re: [GENERAL] restart server on Lion

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Frankel
Hi M, On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:46 AM, A.M. wrote: On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Scott Frankel wrote: Hi all, What's the best/correct way to cause the PostgreSQL server to startup automatically when rebooting on OSX 10.7 Lion? I'm using a macports install of postgres 8.4 and went