Mac Setup

Install PostgreSQL

You should have already verified that you have Homebrew installed and then use Homebrew to install PostgreSQL.

To install PostgreSQL, open your Terminal, and enter: brew update && brew install postgresql

This will create a user for you, that matches your logged in user account. Run the whoami command in the terminal if you aren't sure what that is. This user has a blank password set as the default.

You will need to run this command whenever you first start or restart your computer and open up the terminal in order to start your Postgres server:

brew services start postgresql

If you'd like to shut down your database server, you can run:

brew services stop postgresql

Final Steps

When you are finished installing the Heroku CLI and PostgreSQL, please move Here to complete your final steps