PT4 on OS X 10.11 El Capitan?

[kraada]

Open Terminal and run this command:
ps -ax | grep -i postgres

and paste the output here please.

[augustwest13@gmail.com]

Karada I am also having the same problem connecting to the server. By your previous direction this is what I got from typing the code into my terminal.
Thanks Mark
Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ mark2$ ps -ax | grep -i postgres
91 ?? 0:00.04 /Library/PostgreSQL/9.4/bin/postmaster -D/Library/PostgreSQL/9.4/data
262 ?? 0:00.00 postgres: logger process
264 ?? 0:00.00 postgres: checkpointer process
265 ?? 0:00.07 postgres: writer process
266 ?? 0:00.04 postgres: wal writer process
267 ?? 0:00.03 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
268 ?? 0:00.04 postgres: stats collector process
808 ?? 0:00.64 /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/Postgres
851 ?? 0:00.05 /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin/postgres -D /Users/mark2/Library/Application Support/Postgres/var-9.4
853 ?? 0:00.01 postgres: checkpointer process
854 ?? 0:00.06 postgres: writer process
855 ?? 0:00.02 postgres: wal writer process
856 ?? 0:00.03 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
857 ?? 0:00.08 postgres: stats collector process
1122 ttys000 0:00.00 grep -i postgres

[kraada]

You are getting exactly the same error? Your terminal output is showing that PostgreSQL is running. Did you change the password at installation time? You may only need to change the password PT4 uses for your database.

[augustwest13@gmail.com]

I think it is?

[augustwest13@gmail.com]

sorry Kraada I did not answer your question. I have made no changes ever to my data base. I installed it with PT4 about 8 months ago and never had a problem until I opened it today?

Mark

[kraada]

Have you upgraded anything else recently? The database settings won't just change on their own.

[augustwest13@gmail.com]

No Kraada I have not played poker or opened PT4 for about 3 weeks. The only problem I have had is I had to re-start my Mac book after installing a Tax preparation software app. I tried using a different password when connecting to the postgres server and now I get this screen in which I can only select New . Can I delete all the postgres programs then install the newest version 9.4.5? I have backed up all my handhistories and PT4 files.

Thanks for the help Mark

[kraada]

First look in Applications -> Utilities -> Console for errors relating to PostgreSQL - do you see any there?

[augustwest13@gmail.com]

There are 100's and 100's of these lines
Oct 28 00:27:32 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3[5098]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Oct 28 00:27:32 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Oct 28 00:27:42 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3[5101]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Oct 28 00:27:42 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Oct 28 00:27:52 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3[5102]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Oct 28 00:27:52 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Oct 28 00:28:02 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3[5104]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Oct 28 00:28:02 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Oct 28 00:28:12 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3[5105]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Oct 28 00:28:12 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Oct 28 00:28:22 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3[5106]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Oct 28 00:28:22 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.edb.launchd.postgresql-9.3): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

[kraada]

Ok, so PostgreSQL is trying to launch and failing. Now let's find out why.

Open a terminal window and run this command:

sudo pg_ctl -D /Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/data/

You should have to type in your password - you won't see *s, that's a security precaution. Type and hit enter and tell me what error it spits back at you.