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PostgreSQL services Mac OS X Lion start/stop
When it comes to manually start/stop services installed by PostgreSQL on a Mac, I had a hard time figuring out how to do it, so here is the solution:
First you need to know where definition files for daemons are located:
/Library/LaunchDaemons
Here you will find at least 2 files (if you installed EnterpriseDB-ApachePhp with StackBuilder)
com.edb.launchd.apache.plist com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.1.plist
You can start/stop this daemons with:
launchctl start com.edb.launchd.apache launchctl stop com.edb.launchd.apache
or
launchctl start com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.1 launchctl stop com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.1