support for OSX

[hunleyd]

Currently if you try to run the tool on OSX, it outputs Non Linux database hosts are not supported at the moment. Can not continue which is understandable for a new tool, but I know a lot of people who do their devel on their macbooks and then deploy onto Linux servers/vms and being able to use the tool on OSX would be great.

[alexeyklyukin]

I guess nowadays a lot of people running their databases in the docker containers, so with the native Docker for OS X this is less an issue. However, adopting pg_view to non-Linux systems would be more or less straightforward with psutil, while we don't currently plan to do that, we'd welcome contributions.

[lasomethingsomething]

@hunleyd Hi! Thanks for your interest in this project -- were you interested in making the contribution that @alexeyklyukin?

[hunleyd]

interested? yes. capable? not until i learn the language :(

[lasomethingsomething]

@hunleyd Understood. Good luck!

[rsiera]

I'm interested in making this contribution, actually I've already started, so hope it's still valid ;) Btw. I'll be willing to add tests and do some refactor - currently I am working on that in one branch, but will be able to send separate pull requests.

[alexeyklyukin]

@rsiera sure, you are welcome. Could you describe briefly how are you going to solve the problem? Are you planning on incorporating https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil, or reimplementing the /proc routines in a MacOS compatible way?

[rsiera]

Ok, great, I've added psutil to the project so it can be platform-independent. Need some time to verify if everything will work. Is it acceptable solution, or do you prefer the second one ?

[alexeyklyukin]

@rsiera psutil is what I had in mind as well, so, please, go ahead.