Mac OSX Lion Postgres does not accept connections on /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432

Question

I\'m getting a common Mac OSX error for Homebrew installations of Postgres,

No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on          


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem on Mac Serria. In Mac Serria you can find postmaster.pid inside /Users//Library/Application Support/Postgres/var-9.6 if you used GUI installer rather than homebrew.

Once you delete this file then everything should work fine.