Re: Heads-up: macOS Big Sur upgrade breaks EDB PostgreSQL installations

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 4:45 PM Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> I suppose there are many ways to have PG on OSX i.e. package managers
> (Homebrew, Macports), App installers etc and so many places anyone can find
> his data directory reside in. Generally I prefer data directory to be
> somewhere inside the user home dir as OSX will take care of possible
> backups and will not generally modify its contents during migration betweeb
> osx versions and/or different machines. It is not only the question of
> permissions.
>
> Any options inside user homedir are equally suitable IMO.
>

It is in the user's homedir - it's just that that isn't under /Users:

hal:~ postgres$ echo $HOME
/Library/PostgreSQL/13

With the EDB installers (unlike postgres.app), PostgreSQL runs as a
service, much as it would on Linux or BSD.

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