Now that Amazon Web Services is supporting PostgreSQL I figured it’s about time I got around to getting it setup locally.
First step was to install PostgreSQL via MacPorts:
You should now be able to connect to your database using pgAdmin or a similar tool. If you’re having trouble, a quick reboot of your machine should get it working (assuming you set PostgreSQL to load at startup).
I also wanted to try out PostgresSQL Studio which requires Tomcat so that got installed next:
Installing Tomcat led to a momentary headache as it would not start, throwing the following error – Apple AWT Java VM was loaded on first thread — can’t start AWT. All of the OS X / MacPorts / Tomcat instructions on Google were pretty out of date so it took a bit of digging to figure out what was going on. Luckily the fix was rather simple – just edit tomcatctl with the change shown in the Gist above.
The final step was to download PostgreSQL Studio, unzip the file and drop pgstudio.war into /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/webapps/.
After a few moments Tomcat will autodeploy the war and you’ll be able to browse the application at http://localhost:8080/pgstudio/.
