Restart Postgres from a crashed Mac

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# When macOS crashes and Postgres is running, it won't start if the `postmaster.pid` file is present.
# Careful. If you don't know what you're doing you can lose data.
# Use only on Postgres instances you don't care about or have done the work to look at the crashed data.

# Tail the logs
tail -f $(brew --prefix)/var/log/[email protected]

# Stop Postgres
brew stop postgres

# Delete the pid
rm $(brew --prefix)/var/postgres/postmaster.pid


brew start postgres