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[tblanchard]

Is it easy to find the information you need?

Yes

Are the instructions clear?

Yes

How could we improve the Timescale documentation site?

The instructions are clear except for

timescaledb-tune --quiet --yes
exit: could not find postgresql.conf at any of these locations:
/usr/local/var/postgres/postgresql.conf
/usr/local/var/postgresql@12/postgresql.conf
/opt/homebrew/var/postgres/postgresql.conf
/opt/homebrew/var/postgresql@12/postgresql.conf

I'm running postgresql@17. So that was no fun.
I was able to trick it by creating a symlink at

/opt/homebrew/var/postgres -> /opt/homebrew/var/postgresql@17

but it should know how to find the currently active postgresql version by checking brew services (I have several versions installed for different reasons) rather than have that hard wired version 12.

More a code bug than documentation bug but there it is.
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[jonatas]

Hi @tblanchard, thanks for the feedback. It doesn't seem linked with your actual 12 and you can see it's hardcoded 17. Check the official code:

https://github.com/timescale/homebrew-tap/blob/311e630559c77056625dba7adbeb260fd04ec829/timescaledb.rb#L18

It could be related to the brew local config.