Dwaine Maggart wrote:It seems like the process I provided is not the same in Mavericks/Yosemite. If you have PostgreSQL really running, in your Applications folder is a PostgreSQL 8.4 folder. In that folder is a Stop Server icon. That will stop PostgreSQL. Then if you want to remove it, just trash the /Applications/PostgreSQL 8.4 folder and the /Library/PostgreSQL folder. Make sure nothing else on your system is using PostgreSQL before removing it.
Hi Dwaine,
Thank you so much for your thorough reply. I am trying to uninstall PostgreSQL and pgAdmin3 using MacOSX Sierra (10.12.2) after using the Resolve 12.5.4 installer. With this installer, I have PostgreSQL 9.5. I've run the uninstaller, and still have a bunch of PostgreSQL processes running associated with files in /Library/PostgreSQL/9.5/
a) There's no /sbin/SystemStarter/ directory in Sierra... Also, there does not appear to be any "Stop Server" icon or files anywhere. As there's no /Applications/PostgreSQL, I also looked in the /Library/PostgreSQL/9.5/ directory or sub-dirs. Would quitting the postgres processes through the Activity Monitor.app suffice? Note: the Activity Monitor needs to be set to show "All Processes" to display postgres tasks and launching it with sudo might be required:
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sudo "/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor"
b) there is no /Applications/PostgreSQL... Perhaps the uninstaller did remove this?
c) no .ini file in /etc/
d) nothing at all in /Library/StartupItems/
e) happy to "sudo rm -rf /Library/PostgreSQL/9.5 but figure I should stop the server first?
f) there's no /users/postgres (or /Users/postgres)
Also, per Jay Ray's post, there is a LaunchDaemon:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.5.plist
Happy to remove the .../9.5/ directory but I am unsure of how to wipe away all the components from Sierra that came with the Resolve 12.5.4. Sure would be nice if the uninstaller took care of this. Any ideas on how to proceed with removing PostgreSQL and pgAdmin3 on Sierra? Thanks