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    (1) just the one from brew (2) no! that's odd (3-4) skipped these ones... (5) I tried that and I think I made a breakthrough. Here's the error I get when I try to start it manually: FATAL: database files are incompatible with server 2017-12-06 14:35:33.309 EST [1318] DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 9.6, which is not compatible with this version 10.1. Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 19:36
  • @Joe sudo updatedb; sudo locate postgres | grep bin Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 19:37
  • updatedb gets me a command not found error Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 19:46
  • 'locate' finds only one postgres on my system, and it's v.10.1 in /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/10.1/ Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 19:48
  • looks like there's a utility called pg_upgrade ... it needs my data directory, how do I know where that is? Commented Dec 6, 2017 at 19:50