Start and stop postgresql services
In this tutorial I will show you how to start and stop postgresql services on mac.
I have installed postgresql using brew so I will use brew to start and stop services of postgres.
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Start postgresql services
I will use brew to start the services of postgresql on mac. Just execute the following command to start the service.
# brew services start postgres
==> Successfully started `postgresql` (label: homebrew.mxcl.postgresql)
So now our postgresql service has been started.
Stop postgresql services
Again I will use brew to stop the services of postgresql.
# brew services stop postgres
Stopping `postgresql`... (might take a while)
==> Successfully stopped `postgresql` (label: homebrew.mxcl.postgresql)
If you got some issue started and stopping services of postgresql please feel free to comment below.
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Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7975556/how-to-start-postgresql-server-on-mac-os-x