Diving season is approaching quickly, so I need to get Marcus’ diving instructor web application rolling ASAP. Lost my postgresql installation on my TiBook since my last reinstallation (probably a good thing, ‘cos that particular installation was very outdated).
Installed postgresql via Fink. Maybe I didn’t RTFM or something, but I couldn’t get the postgresql server to run from startup no matter what. Probably would have been better off with Marc Liyanage’s excellent Postgresql distribution, but since I have already gotten Fink’s postgresql to work (except startup upon reboot) I ain’t going back. As Fink daemonic simply refused to work for me, I took Marc’s StartupItems package, installed it, changed a few paths in there, and postgresql is working great on my TiBook now.
What it means is that, I can now develop the web application on my self-contained TiBook, without needing Internet or network access (most of the time).