postgresql83をインストール。

$ sudo port install postgresql83
Password:
--->  Fetching bison
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--->  Verifying checksum(s) for bison
--->  Extracting bison
--->  Configuring bison
--->  Building bison with target all
--->  Staging bison into destroot
--->  Installing bison 2.3_2
--->  Activating bison 2.3_2
--->  Cleaning bison
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--->  Building libxslt with target all
--->  Staging libxslt into destroot
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--->  Activating libxslt 1.1.23_0
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--->  Extracting ossp-uuid
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--->  Configuring ossp-uuid
--->  Building ossp-uuid with target all
--->  Staging ossp-uuid into destroot
--->  Installing ossp-uuid 1.6.1_0
--->  Activating ossp-uuid 1.6.1_0
--->  Cleaning ossp-uuid
--->  Fetching postgresql83
--->  Attempting to fetch postgresql-8.3.3.tar.bz2 from http://ftp8.de.postgresql.org/pub/misc/pgsql//source/v8.3.3/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for postgresql83
--->  Extracting postgresql83
--->  Configuring postgresql83
--->  Building postgresql83
--->  Staging postgresql83 into destroot
--->  Installing postgresql83 8.3.3_0
To use the postgresql server, install the postgresql83-server port
--->  Activating postgresql83 8.3.3_0
--->  Cleaning postgresql83

メッセージにある通り、postgresql83-serverをインストール。

$ sudo port install postgresql83-server
Password:
--->  Fetching postgresql83-server
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for postgresql83-server
--->  Extracting postgresql83-server
--->  Configuring postgresql83-server
--->  Building postgresql83-server with target all
--->  Staging postgresql83-server into destroot
--->  Creating launchd control script
###########################################################
# A startup item has been generated that will aid in
# starting postgresql83-server with launchd. It is disabled
# by default. Execute the following command to start it,
# and to cause it to launch at startup:
#
# sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.postgresql83-server.plist
###########################################################
--->  Installing postgresql83-server 8.3.3_0
To create a database instance, after install do
 sudo mkdir -p /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb
 sudo chown postgres:postgres /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb
 sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin/initdb -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb'
To tweak your DBMS, consider increasing kern.sysv.shmmax by adding an increased kern.sysv.shmmax .. to /etc/sysctl.conf
--->  Activating postgresql83-server 8.3.3_0
--->  Cleaning postgresql83-server

メッセージにある通り、自動起動を設定して、データベースを作成。

$ sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.postgresql83-server.plist
$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb
$ sudo chown postgres:postgres /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb
$ sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin/initdb -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb'
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale ja_JP.UTF-8.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
initdb: could not find suitable text search configuration for locale ja_JP.UTF-8
The default text search configuration will be set to "simple".
fixing permissions on existing directory /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 20
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 2400kB/20000
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb/base/1 ... ok
initializing pg_authid ... ok
initializing dependencies ... ok
creating system views ... ok
loading system objects' descriptions ... ok
creating conversions ... ok
creating dictionaries ... ok
setting privileges on built-in objects ... ok
creating information schema ... ok
vacuuming database template1 ... ok
copying template1 to template0 ... ok
copying template1 to postgres ... ok
WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections
You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the -A option the
next time you run initdb.
Success. You can now start the database server using:
    /opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin/postgres -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb
or
    /opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin/pg_ctl -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb -l logfile start