This step assumes that you have created a postgres user already using system preferences. If you have not, then open the system preferences and create one. If you do not, then you will have some issues later on and may have to reformat/reinstall the operating system.

Click on the 'Accounts' system preference

Click the 'plus' sign at the lower left (you may need the administrator password to unlock the system preference) and enter the account information as per below. NOTE that the account type must be 'standard'. The Postgres account cannot be an 'admin' account.

When you run the installer for the database components, it will put the actual installer files into the Macintosh HD/Users/Shared directory along with all the support files needed for the rest of the steps.

At the and of the TM PostGres file installation phase, the actual Postgres install process will begin immediately (step 2). If you cancel the setup of PostGres, you can always start it again by:

• going into the Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/PostGres Installers/Server folder
• double-clicking the PostGresSQL.mpkg Icon

Select the Drive to install postgres on. In almost all instances there should only be one drive on the machine. If there are more than one on a Mac server, we recommend stopping right here and then striping the drives & reinstalling the operating system before continuing.

Click on the name of the hard drive that contains the operating system. A green arrow will appear on it. Then click 'Continue'

The installer will do a bunch of work to put things in place and setup and start PostGres.