Installed Postgres.app but it won't work - postgresql

Question

I just installed Postgres.app on my Mac but it won't work properly. I finished the installation and the app icon is on the menu bar and it says it is listening on port 5432, however, that is what happens if I try to run it from the command-line:
~ $ psql
zsh: correct 'psql' to 'sl' [nyae]? n
zsh: command not found: psql
I had previously installed PostgreSQL via Homebrew but removed it before installing Postgres.app. I am running Mac OS X Lion.
I appreciate any help, I really want to have PostgreSQL running on my machine.

Answer 1

The psql binary for Postgres.app is inside the application bundle and you'll have to add the appropriate directory to your PATH. From the fine manual:
Configure your $PATH
Postgres.app includes many command line tools. If you want to use them, you must configure the $PATH variable.
If you are using bash (default shell on OS X), add the following line to ~/.bash_profile:
export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin
[...]
So adjust your PATH setting in your zsh config files to include the
Contents/Versions/latest/bin
directory inside your Postgres.app bundle.

Answer 2

I'm reading this as of April 2014 and the directory you must include in your path as far as my Postgres app is concerned is slightly different.
I had to include this:
PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin:$PATH"
I can now run psql in my terminal.

Answer 3

On zsh shell you have the modify .zshrc:
PSQL_PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin"
PATH="$PATH:$PSQL_PATH"
On prompt:
exec $SHELL
which psql

Answer 4

What you should do is to use /latest instead of version so you dont need to change it again when updating Postgres.
How to: http://postgresapp.com/documentation/cli-tools.html
then run:
. ~/.bash_profile
to reload .bash_profile and update any functions you add.

Answer 5

This might seem stupid, but I'm curious where you installed Postgres.app? As was suggested in mu is too short's answer, the documentation mentions adding /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin to your path. However, this requires that you have installed Postgres.app in your /Applications/ folder.
Before trying any of the more complicated solutions you might have found on Stack Overflow, and other resources via Google, you should make sure you've installed Postgres.app to the right place. It may be as simple as moving Postgres.app to /Applications/ since psql will be found in /Applications/Postgres.app before any other places.
Alternatively, you could use whatever path to Postgres.app you would like. So if you want it in your home directory, then you could use export PATH="~/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin:$PATH".
HTH

Answer 6

I'm a previous Ubuntu user, now in OSX Trying to run the "which sql" and "pg_restore" commands directly from a terminal I opened didn't work. I clicked on the elephant icon and opened a terminal by "Open psql". Once I've quit from the psql console and written the commands in that terminal, they all worked.

Answer 7

On ZSH terminal, before trying the above solutions you have to install Postgres in the first place. While using Hombrew
First, hit,
brew install postgres Then check if it is installed by which psql