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Locate client applications on macOS

Locate client applications on macOS - PostgreSQL Tutorial

From the course: PostgreSQL: Client Applications

Locate client applications on macOS

- In order to work with the Postgres command line tools, we first need to find out if they're actually installed. If you're working on a Mac OS computer, then there's a couple of places that we can look depending on how you work with PostgreSQL. Let's start at the postgresql.org website. From here I'll click the download button and then click over to Mac OS. Now the easiest way to work with Postgres on a Mac, is to use the self-contained Mac application. It's not the first option on the page. So let me scroll down here until I get to the section for postgresql.app. This is a native Mac application that contains everything that you need to run a Postgresql server. And it gives you a very nice interface for starting and stopping the server and making connections. It runs right from your applications folder. Let's go ahead and click on the downloads button and I'll download it to my system. Then we can minimize Safari and we'll install it. We'll go into my downloads folder and open up…

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