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So far, we have been using the terminal to connect to the database. Using PGAdmin to connect to the database server Psql postgres -U newuser Fig - Login with newuserĪs you can see in the figure above, we have logged in using the newuser that we have created in the previous step. Type the following commands to first exit from the PG terminal and the re-connect with the newUser. We need to exit from the PG terminal that we are using now and reconnect with the newUser details. Now that we have created a new user, let us connect to the PostgreSQL database using the new user.

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CREATE ROLE newUser WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'password' ĪLTER ROLE newUser CREATEDB Fig - Creating a new role in PostgreSQL You can run the following command to create a new user with a password of your choice and grant the user the CREATEDB permission, which will allow them to create and edit database objects. Let us now create a new user with a sufficient role to create and manage databases within the PostgreSQL environment. psql postgres Fig - Connecting to the default database This will connect the terminal to the default database available in PostgreSQL, i.e. In order to create the root user, make sure the service is running and then execute the following command. Now that our service is running fine, we need to set up a root user with admin privileges that can be used to manage the database service. brew services stop postgresql Configuring the PostgreSQL database Currently, I am not going to stop the services as I will be working further to setup the root user. Similarly, you can use the following command to stop the service once you are done working with it. brew services start postgresql Fig - PostgreSQL service startedĪs you can see in the figure above, the service has been started successfully. Once you have restarted the system, run the following command to start the service. Usually, it is a good practice to restart the system before starting the service as it might save your system from consuming extra computing resources. Once the database system has been installed on your machine, the next step is to start the service.

Fig - PostgreSQL installed using Homebrew Once PostgreSQL has been installed, you can see the status on the terminal window as follows.

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It will also install other dependencies required for the PostgreSQL database to run properly. Installation using this method can take some time depending on the network bandwidth. You can use the following command to install PostgreSQL using Homebrew. Once your machine is equipped with Homebrew, now you can install the PostgreSQL database.

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brew update Fig - Running update command on homebrew Installing PostgreSQL using Homebrew

If you already have Homebrew installed, it would be a good practice to update it using the command below. If you want to understand more about how Homebrew works, there is a good article here. This command will install Homebrew on your machine. In case you find that your machine is not equipped with Homebrew, you can run the following command to install it. Fig - Check if homebrew is installed on MacOS You can just open your terminal on Mac and type ' brew'. Nowadays, most of the latest macOS machines are installed with homebrew, which is a package manager for the Mac operation system. The latest stable version that can be installed is 13.0. You can either download the specified version from the official website or use homebrew to install it. There are multiple ways to download and install the PostgreSQL server on a Mac.

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In this article, I am going to explain how to install and use PostgreSQL on a Mac. This database is available to be used in multiple platforms such as Windows, Linux and macOS. PostgreSQL is open-source and has very powerful community-driven support which enables it to be one of the most popular relational database management systems after MySQL. PostgreSQL has been one of the most widely used relational database management system.

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