Comments on: Mac OSX: starting postgres on boot

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:12:45 +0000

It works like a charm. Thank you very much. Just one thing: the script only works for starting the service up, not shutting it down or restarting it.

So I would change the bash script bit a little. I’d replace the word start at the end of the line for $1 . That way you can actually using the SystemStarter tool to start and stop the service (e.g., SystemStarter stop PostgreSQL)

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:18:57 +0000

Heya! Thanks much for this. This seems to be one of the clearest explanations on Mac OS X PostgreSQL startup out there.

Would you mind if I link to this page from the PostgreSQL docs (9.0) on server startups?

Also: I too had the permissions error that Mike mentions. Even after his fix, sudo SystemStarter -n -D was reporting a failure to start (“execution of Startup script failed”). When I did restart anyway, however, postgres was running fine.

By: Saint

Saint — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:02:02 +0000

Worked like a charm! Thanks heaps!!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:10:16 +0000

Thank you, this really helped. Postgres was working for me until I reinstalled Leopard. The only issue I had was the fact that the PostgreSQL/PostgreSQL had the wrong permissions when I ran the SystemStarter. You might want to add this to your directions:

chmod +x PostgreSQL/PostgreSQL

Other than that, everything worked perfectly.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:03:20 +0000

Excellent. Thanks so much.