Postgres.app Could not start on port 5432

Question

I\'m using http://postgresapp.com. In the menubar it gives the error \" Could not start on port 5432.\" Similarly if I try to start the server from the terminal, I get:

Answer 1

I generally face this issue on my mac, and this fixes it for me always

rm /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid
brew services restart postgresql

Hope this is helpful