PostgreSQL Installation on Mac

Internal

• PostgreSQL
• PostgreSQL Operations

Overview

Initial Installation

brew install postgresql

Update Already Installed Package

brew upgrade postgresql

Operate the Database as a Service

Start at Login

To have launchd start postgresql now and restart at login:

 brew services start postgresql

To Run without a Service

/opt/brew/opt/postgresql@14/bin/postgres -D /opt/brew/var/postgresql@14

Explore equivalency with:

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

Status

  pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres status

Stop

  pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop