Homebrew postgres broken

Question

I installed Postgresql 9.4.0 installed on my Mac (10.10.1/Yosemite) using homebrew. It does not work.

I have created the softlink to /usr/local/opt/postgresql/homebr

Answer 1

Please note that their is a thread on Homebrew's github dealing with this issue: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/35240

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I have had a similar issue. James answer helped me solve it. But I then ran into the issue jbk is mentioning (after having deleted /usr/local/var/postgres, it kept on being recreated).

The issue is that if you have created the symlink:

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/postgresql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

and launched the process:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist

you should first unload it:

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist

before running James's commands.

rm -rf /usr/local/var/postgres  # in case this is not your first try
mkdir /usr/local/var/postgres
chmod 0700 /usr/local/var/postgres

In addition, if, like me, you have an admin user managing homebrew and a regular user who will be using pgsl for development purpose, James command should be run as super user:

sudo -s

and ownership over the postgres directory should be given to your dev user:

chown my-dev-user /usr/local/var/postgres

The following command, run as the dev user, should then properly populate the directory:

createdb `whoami`

Running:

psql -l

should show you the tables and user permissions in postgre after such manipulations.

Hope this helps.