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Installing Postgres on OSX Lion for Rails 3.2
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  • brew install postgres
  • initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
  • postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres

follow instructions here (don't use LaunchAgent): http://www.peerassembly.com/2011/08/09/installing-postgresql-on-lion/

  • sudo chown $USER /var/pgsql_socket/
  • createuser -a -d _postgres

apply this fix (source: http://nextmarvel.net/blog/2011/09/brew-install-postgresql-on-os-x-lion): curl http://nextmarvel.net/blog/downloads/fixBrewLionPostgres.sh | sh

start Postgres with: postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres -k /tmp

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