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new-host-2:ltp mike$ brew remove postgresql
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.4...
new-host-2:ltp mike$ brew install postgresql
==> Downloading http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.1.4/postgresql-9.1.4.tar.bz2
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/postgresql-9.1.4.tar.bz2
==> Patching
patching file src/pl/plpython/Makefile
patching file contrib/uuid-ossp/uuid-ossp.c
==> ./configure --disable-debug --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.4 --datadir=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql
==> make install-world
==> Caveats
# Build Notes

If builds of PostgreSQL 9 are failing and you have version 8.x installed,
you may need to remove the previous version first. See:
  https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/issue/2510

To build plpython against a specific Python, set PYTHON prior to brewing:
  PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python  brew install postgresql
See:
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/install-procedure.html

# Create/Upgrade a Database

If this is your first install, create a database with:
  initdb /usr/local/var/postgres

To migrate existing data from a previous major version (pre-9.1) of PostgreSQL, see:
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/upgrading.html

# Start/Stop PostgreSQL

If this is your first install, automatically load on login with:
  mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
  cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.4/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
  launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist

If this is an upgrade and you already have the homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist loaded:
  launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
  cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.4/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
  launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist

Or start manually with:
  pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start

And stop with:
  pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop -s -m fast

# Loading Extensions

By default, Homebrew builds all available Contrib extensions.  To see a list of all
available extensions, from the psql command line, run:
  SELECT * FROM pg_available_extensions;

To load any of the extension names, navigate to the desired database and run:
  CREATE EXTENSION [extension name];

For instance, to load the tablefunc extension in the current database, run:
  CREATE EXTENSION tablefunc;

For more information on the CREATE EXTENSION command, see:
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createextension.html
For more information on extensions, see:
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/contrib.html

# Other

Some machines may require provisioning of shared memory:
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/kernel-resources.html#SYSVIPC

To install postgresql (and ossp-uuid) in 32-bit mode:
   brew install postgresql --32-bit

If you want to install the postgres gem, including ARCHFLAGS is recommended:
    env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg

To install gems without sudo, see the Homebrew wiki.
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.4: 2751 files, 36M, built in 110 seconds
new-host-2:ltp mike$ initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "mike".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.UTF-8.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

initdb: directory "/usr/local/var/postgres" exists but is not empty
If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
the directory "/usr/local/var/postgres" or run initdb
with an argument other than "/usr/local/var/postgres".

new-host-2:ltp mike$ rm /usr/local/var/postgres
rm: /usr/local/var/postgres: is a directory
new-host-2:ltp mike$ rm -r /usr/local/var/postgres
new-host-2:ltp mike$ initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "mike".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.UTF-8.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

creating directory /usr/local/var/postgres ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers ... 24MB
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in /usr/local/var/postgres/base/1 ... ok
initializing pg_authid ... ok
initializing dependencies ... ok
creating system views ... ok
loading system objects' descriptions ... ok
creating collations ... ok
creating conversions ... ok
creating dictionaries ... ok
setting privileges on built-in objects ... ok
creating information schema ... ok
loading PL/pgSQL server-side language ... ok
vacuuming database template1 ... ok
copying template1 to template0 ... ok
copying template1 to postgres ... ok

WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections
You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the -A option the
next time you run initdb.

Success. You can now start the database server using:

    postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres
or
    pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l logfile start

new-host-2:ltp mike$ 

Awesome! thanks a lot man

I'm getting error

Jitendras-MacBook-Pro:~ jitendravyas$ postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres
LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: Address already in use
HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already in use
HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: Address already in use
HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
WARNING: could not create listen socket for "localhost"
FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets

Thank you!

Also getting "could not bind IPv6 socket" error. If anyone could weigh in, that'd be mighty cool.

Thank you too, was having trouble with my user not being found so I am trying to start over from scratch.