
Which makes me think that I had an older version of PostgreSQL installed that needs to be removed. When I followed an answer on SO, cat /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log I received the following error: LOG: skipping missing configuration file "/usr/local/var/postgres/"įATAL: database files are incompatible with serverĭETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 9.3, which is not compatible with this version 9.4.5. You must specify the -config-file or -D invocation option or set the PGDATA environment variable. However, when I run postgres I received the error of: postgres does not know where to find the server configuration file. From there I decided to install homebrew/services to be able to run postgres in the background and successfully launched and closed the background job withīrew services start postgresql=> Successfully startedpostgresql (label: )

I am trying to use postgres on my machine and realized that some time ago I had installed the database software after running brew install postgres and receiving Error: postgresql-9.4.5_2 already installed.
