If you recently updated your mac to run Yosemite and you've been using Postgres for your development needs you may find that the Postgres daemon is no longer running and cannot be started.

You will see the following error:
I recently updated my Mac Mini Server to Yosemite and the Server app 4.0. When I tried to verify that Postgres is available by executing sudo serveradmin fullstatus. Fix Postgres after installing Yosemite. Sql osx postgres postgresql yosemite pgtblspc. If you recently updated your mac to run Yosemite and you've been using Postgres for your development needs you may find that the Postgres daemon is no longer running.
It appears that Yosemite deleted a few folders.
To fix this you have a couple of options:

Postgres Mac Client
- Create the folders and put a .keep file in them so that they are not erased again. You can do this by running the following commands:
- If you don't have any important data stored on your local Postgres instance, try running
Postgres For Mac Yosemite 10
Note that this approach will drop all existing databases and you may have to re-run your rake tasks (reset, seed) to recreate them.