Daemonized services, such as PostgreSQL, can be installed and managed with
Homebrew. Under the hood brew uses launchctl on Mac to manage these
services — i.e. starting, restarting, and stopping them.
Assuming you've already installed some services, you can run brew services list to see what services there are and what their current status is.
$ brew services list
Name Status User File
mailhog none
mysql none
postgresql@11 started jbranchaud ~/Library/LaunchAgents/[email protected]
postgresql@13 none
postgresql@16 none
unbound noneThis is the default behavior if you just run brew services without a subcommand.
This is helpful if you are, for instance, trying to see which PostgreSQL server
version you are currently running and which other ones are available to run. I
might then issue a stop to postgresql@11 so that I can then start the
postgresql@16 service.
See brew services --help for more details.