jakob · GitHub

Currently, Postgres.app shows a warning and refuses to launch from a location other than /Applications

This is a frequent complaint from users, eg.:

As a first step towards making Postgres.app relocatable was to use relative links for shared libraries, which we completed a year ago:

Making Postgres.app relocatable causes a lot of potential issues, because then people could end up using multiple copies of Postgres.app simultaneously (on purpose or by accident). We've tried to document how we expect Postgres.app to behave on this Wiki page: https://github.com/PostgresApp/PostgresApp/wiki/Requirements-for-making-Postgres.app-relocatable

The next steps towards making Postgres.app relocatable are the following:

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