Re: postgresql and Mac OS X

Niklas Johansson wrote:
>
> On 28 okt 2008, at 23.41, Tom Allison wrote:
>> I was using macports but got into a cluster-F on versions and multiple
>> installs.  After a spell I had all four versions 8.0 - 8.3 installed
>> in order to use postgres, ruby, perl, and rails together.
>
> Do you mean that Macports installed different versions of Postgres
> because the other packages had different dependencies? Don't know if
> compiling from source would help you there, but surely there must be
> some way to tell the package manager that a certain dependency already
> exists, albeit somewhere else?
>


Yes.  Between different programing libraries to access postgresql I was
getting caught up in multiple versions of the database itself.  Very
unpleasant.