Upgrading your PostgreSQL database from one major version (e.g. 9.4.x) to another major version (e.g. 9.5.x) used to a painful and exceedingly slow process. You essentially had two options: dump / reload the data or use one of the complex logical replication tools.
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Following on from this post, you probably have multiple versions of PostgreSQL installed on your Mac. In that post, I added an example function to help you manage all these concurrent installs. Today, I’m back with a full-fledged shell script to help manage all this. Without further ado, the script:
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In our previous post, we installed PostgreSQL via Homebrew and got our own little cluster up and running under our userid. That is probably good enough for 90% of the users out there who just want to play with or devel on PostgreSQL, but for those of us who need a little more flexibility in our installs, we’re going to take the next step.
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If you need to install PostgreSQL onto your Macbook, you have several options available to you nowadays. You could use the BigSQL package, or you could use Postgres.app, or several others. However, if you’re a geek running OSX, you’ve probably already installed Homebrew and it has a wonderful PostgreSQL package. So let’s use it, shall we?
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As announced on our Twitter, we’ve scheduled our inaugural meeting for Jan 24, 2017 at 1800 hrs. The folks at CoverMyMeds will graciously provide the meeting space (and parking garage) while OpenSCG is buying the pizza!
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