Installing PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL: Up and Running - page 193

• Homebrew is a Mac OS package manager for many things PostgreSQL. Russ Brooks
dishes out step-by-step instructions for installing PostgreSQL 9 on Homebrew. You
can follow these steps for later versions of PostgreSQL, as little has changed in the
way of installation procedures. Upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3 with Brew provides in‐
structions for upgrading an older install. You'll find plenty of useful articles at the
Homebrew PostgreSQL Wiki .
• Postgres.app distributed by Heroku is a free desktop distribution touted as the
easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac. It usually maintains the latest
version of PostgreSQL bundled with popular extensions such as PostGIS, PL/
Python, and PLV8. Postgres.app runs as a standalone application that you can stop
and start as needed, making it suitable for development or single users.
• KyngChaos PostgreSQL + GIS has the latest release package of PostgreSQL geared
toward GIS users. PostGIS, pgRouting, R, and QGIS come standard.
• MacPorts is a Mac OS X package distribution for compiling, installing, and up‐
grading many open source packages. It's the oldest of the Mac OS distributions
systems that carries PostgreSQL. At time of writing, PostgreSQL 9.3 is the latest
version.
• Fink is a Mac OS X package distribution based on the Debian apt-get installation
framework. As the time of writing, it offers version 9.2 and trails behind other Mac
distributions.