Can't brew install postgresql on Mac Snow Leopard

Question

Trying to install PostgreSQL on my OSX 10.6.8:

$ brew install postgresql

Output (Try 1):

==> Installing dependencies for postgresql: ossp-uuid
==> Installing postgresql dependency: ossp-uuid
==> Downloading ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz

curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
Trying a mirror...
==> Downloading http://gnome-build-stage-1.googlecode.com/files/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ossp-uuid/1.6.2 --without-perl --without-php --without-pgsql
==> make
make: *** [uuid_sha1.lo] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [uuid_md5.lo] Error 1
make: *** [uuid.lo] Error 1
make: *** [uuid_prng.lo] Error 1

READ THIS: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting

Output (Try 2):

==> Installing dependencies for postgresql: ossp-uuid
==> Installing postgresql dependency: ossp-uuid
==> Downloading ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ossp-uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ossp-uuid/1.6.2 --without-perl --without-php --without-pgsql
==> make
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: vfork: Operation timed out
gcc-4.2: vfork: Operation timed out
make: *** [uuid_prng.lo] Error 1
make: *** [uuid_md5.lo] Error 1
make: *** [uuid.lo] Error 1

READ THIS: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting

No idea what to do with this. The READ THIS link is useless. Anybody?

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UPDATE: Tried brew doctor, which didn't give me anything useful AFAIK, just some warnings about where it was looking for Python:

Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:

    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python-config
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7-config

Answer 1

error message is not related to postgresql. Have you tried brew doctor? try brew doctor and see this link (OS X 10.8 - error trying to exec '/usr/bin/i686-apple-darwin11-gcc-4.2.1' - installing json gem) I think you should focus on vfork operation timed out message