PostgreSQL Mountain Lion socket issue

Question

I\'ve been trying to set up PostgreSQL on my system (OSX 10.8, clean install), but I\'m running into trouble with using psql, createdb, etc. I\'ve

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and after doing what you'd done I also had to change my path so that /usr/local/bin (where Homebrew puts everything) comes before /usr/bin. I don't know why this isn't the default anymore, but it's easy to change.

sudo vi /etc/paths

then edit the file to have the /usr/local/bin line at the top.

Or alternately if you just want this change to happen for your specific user account, edit your ~/.bash_profile file:

touch ~/.bash_profile
vi ~/.bash_profile

and add this line: export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

then run source ~/.bash_profile for the changes to take effect.