postgres launch daemon not working

[Scott Frankel]

Forgot to mention that this is on OSX Lion (10.7.2).


On Jan 31, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Scott Frankel wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been unable to get launchctl to start the PostgreSQL server, even though the daemon appears to be loading.
> 
> First I installed postgresql84 @8.4.10_0, but it appeared that a launch daemon plist file was not included with the installation.
> 
> Google searches suggested that the plist file comes with the server, so I installed postgresql84-server @8.4.10_0, which indeed installed the plist file.  In contrast with installing '84, '84-server took only moments to complete installation.
> 
> Invoking launchctl to load the plist file, rebooting or not, then calling `psql` yields the familiar error:
> 
> 	psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> 		Is the server running locally and accepting
> 		connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> 
> 
> Thinking that the launch daemon was not loaded, I tried loading it again:
> 
> 	% sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.postgresql84-server.plist
> 
> only to find that it was already loaded:
> 
> 	org.macports.postgresql84-server: Already loaded
> 
> The plist file specifies /opt/local/bin/daemondo, which I confirmed exists and is executable on my machine.  I currently have both postgres variants active:
> 
>  postgresql84 @8.4.10_0 (active)
>  postgresql84-server @8.4.10_0 (active)
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Scott
> 
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