How do I specify which version of postgres rails use? When I run puma and go to localhost:3000 I get a an error
PG::ConnectionBad
fe_sendauth: no password supplied
I think the copy being used may be the manual install 9.3, as when I run:
/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.4.1/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start
I get the error:
stgres start
server starting
LOG: skipping missing configuration file "/usr/local/var/postgres/postgresql.auto.conf"
FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 9.3, which is not compatible with this version 9.4.1.
I found three copies of pg_hba.conf on my system:
/Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/data/pg_hba.conf
/Users/lasernite/Library/Application Support/Postgres/var-9.4/pg_hba.conf
/usr/local/var/postgres/pg_hba.conf
The first one I believe was from a manual install at some point. The second one is probably just some supporting copy/ignorable, and the third one is a homebrew install.
How can I make rails use the homebrew postgres install, even if it means wiping the local database? Which is fine so long as the production on heroku is instact.
I've been stuck for several days on reconfiguring my development environment from sqlite to postgres, which is very problematic as I have a production db and site live now, which is forcing me to do some code pushes without being able to verify functionality locally, but for the most part has totally crippled my ability to do any development.
Please help me!
It looks like the problem is that you're starting 9.4.1 when the database was created by 9.3.x.
The version of posgres that Rails uses should be whichever one is running. So if you want to start postgres in version 9.3.x, then you should start that version. But you have to specify the correct path for that version.
What output do you get for these?
> initdb --version
> pg_ctl --version
> postgres --version
> psql --version
It should all be the same. If it says 9.4.x and you want to use that version, then you can re-init the database like so: initdb -D /usr/local/var/postgres-4.1 and then you can start postgres postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres-4.1. Doing it this way, you'll probably lose your local database since it sounds like that data was created by 9.3.x.
Alternatively, if those output 9.3.x, then you should just be able to use the commands without the full path to the binary: postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres.
If you're using 9.4.x and you want to keep using 9.3.x, then try which postgres. It's probably pointing to /usr/local/bin. Then make sure that that is just a link to the homebrew version. ls -la /usr/local/bin | grep "postgres ->".
If you're using the homebrew version, you can do brew switch postgres 9.3.x to tell homebrew to use that version. Then you should be able to start postgres with postgres -D /var/local/var/postgres.