Thread: Configuring pg on os x lion

So I go ahead and try to run postgres directly. When I do I get this:

larson:~ larson$ /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin/postgres ; exit;
postgres does not know where to find the server configuration file.
You must specify the --config-file or -D invocation option or set the PGDATA environment variable.
logout

So my thinking here is that the config files are missing. I searched for pg_hba.conf file and couldn't find it. Now I am unsure how to proceed, when I used pg on os x Snow Leopard I could go into a ~/Library/Developer/postgresql folder and all my config files would be there. There would also be logs I could read to get a better idea of what's going. Now those seem to be missing, does anyone know where I can find them?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Andrew

Thanks,

Andrew

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Andrew Barinov <andy.lauerbarinov@me.com> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to get pg working on os x lion and getting some configuration errors. Wondering if anyone on this list faced these before.

I installed pg via homebrew and I get this error when trying to launch it via a local web server on my machine: 

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"?

So I go ahead and try to run postgres directly. When I do I get this:

larson:~ larson$ /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin/postgres ; exit; postgres does not know where to find the server configuration file. You must specify the --config-file or -D invocation option or set the PGDATA environment variable. logout

So my thinking here is that the config files are missing. I searched for pg_hba.conf file and couldn't find it. Now I am unsure how to proceed, when I used pg on os x Snow Leopard I could go into a ~/Library/Developer/postgresql folder and all my config files would be there. There would also be logs I could read to get a better idea of what's going. Now those seem to be missing, does anyone know where I can find them?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Andrew

Could you please share below information for troubleshooting this issue:

/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin/pg_config

/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin/pg_ctl -D <data Directory Path> status

--

Thanks & Regards,

Raghu Ram

EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Andrew

Hi,

Sure, here are the results from the two commands:

larson:~ larson$ /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin/pg_config

BINDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin

DOCDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/share/doc/postgresql

HTMLDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/share/doc/postgresql

INCLUDEDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/include

PKGINCLUDEDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/include

INCLUDEDIR-SERVER = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/include/server

LIBDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/lib

PKGLIBDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/lib

LOCALEDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/share/locale

MANDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/share/man

SHAREDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/share/postgresql

SYSCONFDIR = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/etc

PGXS = /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk

CONFIGURE = '--disable-debug' '--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3' '--datadir=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/share/postgresql' '--docdir=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/share/doc/postgresql' '--enable-thread-safety' '--with-bonjour' '--with-gssapi' '--with-krb5' '--with-openssl' '--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt' '--with-ossp-uuid' '--with-python' '--with-perl' 'ARCHFLAGS='''-arch x86_64'''' 'CC=/usr/bin/llvm-gcc' 'CFLAGS=-Os -w -pipe -march=core2 -msse4 -I/usr/local/Cellar/ossp-uuid/1.6.2/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.2.2/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/ossp-uuid/1.6.2/lib' 'LIBS=-luuid' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.2.2/include -I/usr/include/libxml2'

CC = /usr/bin/llvm-gcc

CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.2.2/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include/libxml2

CFLAGS = -Os -w -pipe -march=core2 -msse4 -I/usr/local/Cellar/ossp-uuid/1.6.2/include -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv

CFLAGS_SL = 

LDFLAGS = -L/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.2.2/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/ossp-uuid/1.6.2/lib -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs

LDFLAGS_EX = 

LDFLAGS_SL = 

LIBS = -lpgport -lxslt -lxml2 -lssl -lcrypto -lgssapi_krb5 -lz -lreadline -lm -luuid

VERSION = PostgreSQL 9.1.3

larson:~ larson$ /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin/pg_ctl -D /user/local/var/postgres status

pg_ctl: no server running

Even though the result above is "no server running", I am do have a postgres server running.

larson:~ larson$ ps -a | grep postgres

17476 ttys001    0:00.12 postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres

17543 ttys002    0:00.00 grep postgres

On a final note when I try to run psql I get the following result:

larson:~ larson$ psql

psql: FATAL:  database "larson" does not exist

Thanks,

Andrew

On Apr 27, 2012, at 09:51 PM, raghu ram <raghuchennuru@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Andrew Barinov <andy.lauerbarinov@me.com> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to get pg working on os x lion and getting some configuration errors. Wondering if anyone on this list faced these before.

I installed pg via homebrew and I get this error when trying to launch it via a local web server on my machine: 

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"?

So I go ahead and try to run postgres directly. When I do I get this:

larson:~ larson$ /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin/postgres ; exit; postgres does not know where to find the server configuration file. You must specify the --config-file or -D invocation option or set the PGDATA environment variable. logout

So my thinking here is that the config files are missing. I searched for pg_hba.conf file and couldn't find it. Now I am unsure how to proceed, when I used pg on os x Snow Leopard I could go into a ~/Library/Developer/postgresql folder and all my config files would be there. There would also be logs I could read to get a better idea of what's going. Now those seem to be missing, does anyone know where I can find them?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Andrew

Could you please share below information for troubleshooting this issue:

/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin/pg_config

/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.3/bin/pg_ctl -D <data Directory Path> status

--

Thanks & Regards,

Raghu Ram

EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com