I have been experiencing spooky behavior with Postgres after using the Mac installer for Postgres. There seems to be an existing half-baked Postgres installation that was already there and remains there after I deleted the Mac GUI installer version from /Applications and /Library. Part of the spooky behavior included being unable after repeated poking and prodding to get a particular user to authenticate with its behavior--but this makes sense if I had two parallel Postgres databases, one for which I was (successfully) setting the user with a particular password, and one which did not have this database set. Now that that version is uninstalled, I have a number of Postgres binaries that crash or give errors if I try to use them:
$ psql dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib Referenced from: /usr/bin/psql Reason: image not found Trace/BPT trap: 5 $ I have not used MacPorts, Fink, or other Unix installers other than Homebrew in the life of this Mac. Homebrew disclaims ownership of a Postgres installation: # ls /usr/local/Cellar | grep -i postgres # So however installed, I have a broken Postgres installation that I would like to wipe completely. How can I completely wipe Postgres from my system so I can install it with the installer and have one Postgres installation, instead of a spooky one and a half installations? -- [image: Christos Jonathan Hayward] <http://jonathanscorner.com/> Christos Jonathan Hayward, an Orthodox Christian author. *Amazon <http://amazon.com/author/cjshayward>* • Author Bio<http://jonathanscorner.com/author/> • *Email <christos.jonathan.hayw...@gmail.com>* • Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/christos.jonathan.hayward> • Fan Page <http://fan.cjshayward.com/> • Google Plus<http://jonathanscorner.com/plus> • LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhayward> • *Professional<http://jonathanhayward.com/> * • Twitter <http://twitter.com/JonathansCorner> • *Web<http://jonathanscorner.com/> * • What's New? <http://jonathanscorner.com/> If you read just *one* of my books, you'll want *The Best of Jonathan's Corner <http://www.amazon.com/dp/1478219912>*.
