In this tutorial we will learn to install PostgreSQL database on Mac using Homebrew.

Prerequisite

It is assumed that you have Homebrew installed on your Mac.

$ brew install git. Apple ships a binary package of Git with Xcode. Binary installer. Tim Harper provides an installer for Git. The latest version is 2.32.0, which was released 17 days ago, on 2021-07-21. Building from Source. If you prefer to build from source, you can find tarballs on kernel.org. The latest version is 2.32.0. Install kafka in macos catalina using brew Published Mon, Feb 10, 2020 by DSK if you do not have brew installed on your mac, Install homebrew on your mac by running the following command on your Terminal.

If you don't have Homebrew installed on your Mac then open Terminal and run the following command.

You can visit Homebrew official website https://brew.sh to learn more about it.

Once you have Homebrew (a.k.a. brew) installed on your machine you can run the following command in the Terminal to check the version.

To update run the following command.

Alright, time to install PostgreSQL on Mac.

Install PostgreSQL using Homebrew

In Terminal run the following command to install PostgreSQL on Mac using Homebrew.

We can check the version of PostgreSQL using the psql command.

Install Homebrew Catalina

Start PostgreSQL

To start PostgreSQL run the following command in the Terminal.

We will get a similar output shown below.

Stop PostgreSQL

To stop PostgreSQL run the following command in the Terminal.

We will get a similar output.

Restart PostgreSQL

To restart PostgreSQL run the following command in the Terminal.

We will get a similar output as shown below.

Login to PostgreSQL database

By default we will get a database by the name postgres. So, to connect to it we will run the following command.

We will see the following output.

List all the users

To list all the users we use the du command.

List all the databases

To list all the databases run the l command.

How To Install Homebrew On Macos Catalina

Create a database

To create a database run the following command. In the given example mydb is the name of the database.

Connect to a database

To connect to a database use the c command.

List all the tables inside a database

To list all the tables inside a database we run the d command.

Note! If there is no table then we will get a prompt stating no relations found.

Let us go ahead and create a simple users table inside the mydb database and try the above command again.

Create table

In the following example we are creating a simple users table.

Now if we list the tables using the d command we will get the table.

How to exit from psql?

To exit or quit from psql type the q command.

Alright, this brings us to the end of this tutorial. Hope you found it useful. Please share this tutorial if it was helpful. See you in the next tutorial. Have fun developing :-)