How good is the upgrade story? That's typically the achilles heel of GUI installers (vs. installing using homebrew).
Re:Postgres.app
by capableweb on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:50AM
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In my limited experience (no longer using macOS after ~6 years on the platform), homebrew upgrades was broken more often than upgrades provided by GUI applications. I specifically remember a particular postgres upgrade via homebrew went wrong and I had to basically erase all traces of postgres before re-installing again in order to get it to work. On the other hand, I can remember zero times a GUI upgrade went wrong.
I have been using it for 2 yesrs now. Did not have any problem upgrading changing the version etc. Homebrew breaks things often. The App just works I never have to care about it.
I've had the exact opposite experience with Homebrew vs GUI installers. Postgres.app has never had any issues, while Homebrew postgres breaks every time I run `brew update`, because of the way homebrew handles icu4 library dependencies.
Why is this for beginners? Because it is so easy to use? I guess I am a beginner then.
> works pretty nicely
Postgres.app works perfectly and is very minimal in system requirements vs having docker running and the amount of storage it requires.