| To make macOS automatically launch your PostgreSQL server at system start, |
| do the following: |
| |
| 1. Edit the postgres-wrapper.sh script and adjust the file path |
| variables at its start to reflect where you have installed Postgres, |
| if that's not /usr/local/pgsql. |
| |
| 2. Copy the modified postgres-wrapper.sh script into some suitable |
| installation directory. It can be, but doesn't have to be, where |
| you keep the Postgres executables themselves. |
| |
| 3. Edit the org.postgresql.postgres.plist file and adjust its path |
| for postgres-wrapper.sh to match what you did in step 2. Also, |
| if you plan to run the Postgres server under some user name other |
| than "postgres", adjust the UserName parameter value for that. |
| |
| 4. Copy the modified org.postgresql.postgres.plist file into |
| /Library/LaunchDaemons/. You must do this as root: |
| sudo cp org.postgresql.postgres.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons |
| because the file will be ignored if it is not root-owned. |
| |
| At this point a reboot should launch the server. But if you want |
| to test it without rebooting, you can do |
| sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.postgres.plist |
