I just reinstalled postgres via brew install postgres
I ran initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
but got this:
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "atal421".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.UTF-8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
initdb: directory "/usr/local/var/postgres" exists but is not empty
If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
the directory "/usr/local/var/postgres" or run initdb
with an argument other than "/usr/local/var/postgres".
so, I rm -rf
the postgres folder and ran it again:
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
it said everything was okay:
Success. You can now start the database server using:
postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres
so, I ran that command and got:
postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres
FATAL: lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists
HINT: Is another postmaster (PID 13731) running in data directory "/usr/local/var/postgres"?
Now when I look at my Activity Monitor I can see 6 instances of postgress.
How do I fix this?
postgres
with a postmaster and five utility backends. PostgreSQL is a multi-process architecture.