Postgres.app is the easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac. Open the app, and you have a PostgreSQL server ready and awaiting new connections. Close the app, and the server shuts down.
Postgres.app is the easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac. Open the app, and you have a PostgreSQL server ready and awaiting new connections. Close the app, and the server shuts down.
Postgres.app contains a full-featured PostgreSQL installation in a single package:
- PostgreSQL
- PostGIS
- Procedural languages: PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl, PL/Python, and PLV8 (Javascript)
- Popular extensions, including hstore and uuid-ossp, and more
- A number of command-line utilities for managing PostgreSQL and working with GIS data
