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                Repair postgres (homebrew) after a system crash
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    When my mac crashes and Postgres doesn't boot properly I see the following errors in /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log
FATAL:  lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists

# and / or

lock file "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock" already exists

Here are the commands to put Postgres back on track: