I switched to use the homebrew version because I couldn't get the pg tools and such to work from the command line. Nobody got time for that. :P
After doing both homebrew and Postgresapp for a while, I've switched to using Docker to run it. It's really nice because then on a per-app basis I can have separate versions easily and all checked into version control.
Fair enough, I've personally never had that experience.
It's a convenient app but I'm very conscious of menu bar real estate, and mostly don't use it for the reason of adding an icon where the only interaction is launching / quitting it.
I wish we had a better GUI for managing a user's daemons on OS X.
It seems like there could be territory here for a menu bar app that hooks into homebrew-services [1]. It'd still take some menu bar room, but it could have one dropdown for a whole variety of services in an integrated way.
Yeah, I'd definitely love to see an option to hide the icon.
Postgres.app is "easier" to install but more trouble to develop with than properly installed Postgres. And "easier" means downloading an app, since it's quicker and fewer steps to install via Homebrew.