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I've seen several sites claim that Postgres is installed by default for OSX 10.7 and above and I see there's a psql command in /usr/bin/, but there doesn't seem to be a pg_ctl anywhere.

So is the default install of Postgres something that I can actually develop against or is it just there for OSX itself to use? I just don't want to install an extra version of Postgres and screw something up.

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sooooooooooooo ... what does running psql do? – swasheck Nov 7 '12 at 21:17
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"? – Gregory Bell Nov 7 '12 at 21:32

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Well, the fact that you have psql (the client) installed, usually means that you have the PostgreSQL server installed as well. However, it does not mean that the server is running.

And, more importantly, OSX is an exception:

PostgreSQL is the default database on Mac OS X Server as of version 10.7. The standard version of Mac OS X includes only the PostgreSQL commandline client utilities.

(from the documentation)

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