can not install node-postgres

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I'm trying to setup node-postgres for my project. However I keep getting these gyp errors when I try to install it. How can I get node-postgres to recognize that my pg_config is located in /Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/bin/pg_config. Because my favourite search engine results told me to do it like this: ``` ➜ src git:(master) ✗ PG_CONFIG=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/bin/pg_config ➜ src git:(master) ✗ export PG_CONFIG ➜ src git:(master) ✗ sudo npm install pg Password: npm WARN package.json test@0.1.0 No repository field. npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/pg npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/pg npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/generic-pool/2.0.3 npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/buffer-writer/1.0.0 npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/pgpass/0.0.1 npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nan npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/nan npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/pgpass/0.0.1 npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/buffer-writer/1.0.0 npm http 304 https://regi…

Accepted Answer

It looks like the node build tool doesn't look at the `PG_CONFIG` env var:

/bin/sh: pg_config: command not found

Add it to the `PATH` instead:

```
export PATH=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/bin:$PATH
```

can not install node-postgres

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