[Mahesh-Ss-Computer:~] ampleuser% /Library/PostgresqL/bin/pg_ctl -D /users/ampleuser/data -l logfile start
postmaster successfully started
Postgres will actually be spitting the error to a file called "logfile", while saying it was successful to STDOUT. Your error is in there.
Alex
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