Prevent PostgreSQL to start when Mac OS X boots

Question

I installed PostgreSQL 8.4.4 in Mac OS X. I am pretty happy and I don't want to uninstall it since I do occasional development on it.

But I would definitely like to prevent OS X to run it every time the machine boots up.

What's the "Mac OS way" of doing that? In Linux I would turn off the service in some runlevels, but I don't know how to do the same in Mac OS X.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Mac OS X uses launchd to replace init.d.

To disable a launchd job you need to find out the name of the plist that has all the details of the job. sudo launchctl unload /PATH/TO/PLIST.

The file is most likely in /Library/LaunchDaemons but the exact name depends on how you installed it (eg. PostgreSQL's distribution, MacPorts, etc.)