Mac OSX Lion Postgres does not accept connections on /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432

Question

I\'m getting a common Mac OSX error for Homebrew installations of Postgres,

No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on          


        

Answer 1

You need to remove the postmaster.pid, which should be in the following path: /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid