PostgreSQL server won't stop

Question

Having a bit of an issue with PostgreSQL on Mac OS X 10.8.4. I accidentally did brew rm postgresql --force while the postgres server was running. When I install

Answer 1

I had a similar issue. I had forgot that I integrated 'lunchy' a few days ago and was using it as a launchctl wrapper to initiate plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist on start up. pg_ctl was not effective because of the following line of code KeepAlive:

      
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     5   KeepAlive
     6   
     7   Label
     8   homebrew.mxcl.postgresql
     9   ProgramArguments
    10   
    11     /usr/local/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres
    12     -D
    13     /usr/local/var/postgres
    14     -r
    15     /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log
    16   
    17   RunAtLoad
    18   
    19   WorkingDirectory
    20   /usr/local
    21   StandardErrorPath
    22   /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log
    23 
    24 

Trying to kill the process directly didn't work because I needed to unload the plist.

    launchctl unload homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist