Re: "1-Click" installer problems

Thats what i get:

edbs-MacBook:~ sachin$ hdiutil attach postgresql-8.4.3-1-osx.dmg
expected CRC32 $F9B026D4
/dev/disk1 Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk1s1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk1s2 Apple_HFS
/Volumes/PostgreSQL 8.4.3-1
edbs-MacBook:~ sachin$ sudo /Volumes/PostgreSQL\
8.4.3-1/postgresql-8.4.3-1-osx.app/Contents/MacOS/installbuilder.sh --help
Password:
PostgreSQL 8.4
Usage:

--help Display the list of valid options

--version Display product information

--optionfile <optionfile> Installation option file
Default:

--unattendedmodeui <unattendedmodeui> Unattended Mode UI
Default: none
Allowed: none minimal minimalWithDialogs

--debuglevel <debuglevel> Debug information level of verbosity
Default: 2
Allowed: 0 1 2 3 4

--mode <mode> Installation mode
Default: qt
Allowed: qt osx text unattended

--debugtrace <debugtrace> Debug filename
Default:

--installer-language <installer-language> Language selection
Default:
Allowed: en es

--extract-only <extract-only>
Default: 0

--superaccount <superaccount> Sets the user name of the database
superuser. Defaults to 'postgres'.
Default: postgres

--servicename <servicename> servicename.description
Default: postgresql-8.4

--serviceaccount <serviceaccount> Sets the operating system user
account that owns the server process. Defaults to 'postgres'.
Default: postgres

--create_shortcuts <create_shortcuts> Specifies whether or not menu
shortcuts should be created.
Default: 1

--prefix <prefix> Installation Directory
Default: /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4

--datadir <datadir> Data Directory
Default: /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/data

--superpassword <superpassword> Password
Default:

--serverport <serverport> Port
Default: 5432

--locale <locale> Locale
Default:

--install_plpgsql <install_plpgsql> Install pl/pgsql in template1
database?
Default: 1

On 4/2/10 1:14 PM, John Gage wrote:
> There is a CLI option where? Forgive my ignorance, please. Does it
> appear in the one-click installer?
>
> John
>
>
> On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Sachin Srivastava wrote:
>
>> There is a CLI option --serviceaccount <username> which a user can
>> use to make any user the owner of postgres service and data files.
>>
>> Also, if you choose 'postgres' as the service account and the
>> 'postgres' user doesn't exist. The installer will create postgres as
>> a 'locked' user account. Thats the reason you dont see 'postgres'
>> listed as any other normal user. These steps were taken to enhance
>> the security of the data folder.
>>
>> Again, anytime a user is free to use any account as the service
>> account and not use 'postgres'.
>>
>> On 4/2/10 12:37 PM, John Gage wrote:
>>> Then I don't understand why the installer doesn't do the same thing.
>>>
>>> Or, in the alternative, why it doesn't ask you what you want these
>>> parameters to be.
>>>
>>> I would say that, typically, someone installing postgres does it,
>>> conceivably, as root or, more likely, as a user.
>>>
>>> What he or she doesn't do is install it as user 'postgres'.
>>>
>>> Yet, that is what the one-click installer does. I do not believe
>>> that this is intuitive. What is more, gratuitiously adding a user
>>> to the system doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
>>>
>>> In addition, all other one-click installations on the Mac either
>>> don't ask for root privileges, because they don't need them, or ask
>>> for them, but still install under the current user. Some
>>> installations will even ask whether you want the application usable
>>> by all users of the machine or just you.
>>>
>>> But none, repeat none, create a new user.
>>>
>>> What is more, through standard unix commands such as "who" or "cat
>>> /etc/passwd", I cannot find the user 'postgres' on my machine...even
>>> though he is the owner of the Postgres data files...on my machine.
>>>
>>> There's the rub. 'postgres' owns files...my files...on my machine,
>>> yet he is not on my machine. Not good.
>>>
>>> I should add that I am an accolyte of Postgres and am only raising
>>> this (possible) issue in the most positive spirit I am capable of.
>>> In addition, I think that the people on this list are superb, and
>>> the responses are unbelievably helpful and accurate.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:29 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
>>>
>>>> John Gage wrote:
>>>>> The 8.4.2 documentation says:
>>>>>
>>>>> "The default user name is your Unix user name, as is the default
>>>>> database name."
>>>>
>>>> when you as a user connect to the database server the commands like
>>>> psql, pg_dump, etc all use your unix username as the default for
>>>> the database username, and your username as teh default for the
>>>> database name, unless you specify a different user and/or database
>>>> on hte command line.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Sachin Srivastava
>> EnterpriseDB <http://www.enterprisedb.com>, the Enterprise Postgres
>> <http://www.enterprisedb.com> company.
>

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Regards,
Sachin Srivastava
EnterpriseDB <http://www.enterprisedb.com>, the Enterprise Postgres
<http://www.enterprisedb.com> company.