I'm trying to use psql version 9.6 on Mac OSX 10.11 and installed from the EnterpriseDB installer but I'm getting the following error:
MacBook-Pro:local me$ which psql
/usr/local/bin/psql
MacBook-Pro:local me$ /usr/local/bin/psql -h localhost; echo "Error code: $?"
Usage: /usr/local/bin/psql [wait]
Error code: 127
As you can see, I'm simply trying to connect to localhost and I'm getting a usage error despite following the syntax from the manual.
What is happening here?
Your bash is returning the error code 127: command not found.
See 127 Return code from $? for more details about this bash code.
Make sure that psql is in the directory you're trying to access.
Simple mistake - /usr/local/bin/psql was a symlink for /Library/PostgreSQL/9.6/scripts/runpsql.sh which doesn't accept any arguments... it's basically EnterpriseDB's shell script wrapper around the actual actual binary which is /Library/PostgreSQL/9.6/bin/psql.
I just needed to point psql to the real executable and not that shell script.
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On Windows 10, using psql with PostgreSQL 14 installed, I'm trying to restore a dump that is my_dump.sql.
I'm on Bash terminal currently.
I'm connected to psql server and I created a new database new_db, then a new superuser tobe.
Then I tried the command psql -d new_db < my_dump.sql but I'm getting the error stdin is not a tty
I tried the solution psql -U tobe -d new_db -f my_dump.sql from "stdin is not a tty" when populating Postgres database
because they mention the error but now I get a new error:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "ÿþ" LIGNE 1 : ÿþ
Are the two errors connected? Maybe the second error is only related to the command syntax. I'm not sure if I'm in the right direction.
Try
psql.exe -U tobe -d new_db -f my_dump.sql
I am attempting to obtain some benchmarking data by using pgbench, but I am running into a syntax error in the process. I am running psql v9.6.2 on macOS High Sierra (10.13.2), and consistently receive the same error when using pgbench in the psql command-line client, and in PGAdmin IV:
syntax error at or near "pgbench"
An example command I might run would be:
postgres=# pgbench -i -s 2000 [db_name];
I'm sure there is something simple that I'm missing here, but the documentation page on pgbench hasn't been too illuminating for me.
pgbench is a separate command line program shipped with postgres
run it on console, not like a script
First off, let me say that I'm new to both using Mac and PostgreSQL. I just installed Postgres using their installer and it was installed in /Library/Postgres/... when I tried running createdb from the terminal it returned an error createdb: command not found. I ended up using /library/postgresql/9.6/bin/createdb before I coud get it to work.
Here's my question, how do I set it so that I don't have to type in the full path again to use the createdb command.
I'd love a detailed explanation.
Thanks
First you need to execute the psql command to get into the postgresql interacive shell.
In your terminal:
psql
Postgresql interactive shell should start. In this shell
> createdb yourdatabasename;
Btw: If psql is not found you will probably need to add it to your path and restart your terminal, something like this with the path matching your machine:
export PATH=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.5/bin:$PATH
I installed postgresql94 and the server via macports and when I try to ‘su postgres psql’ getting following error...
opt/local/lib/postgresql94/bin/psql: cannot execute binary file
Why is this? What is wrong..? I type my password correctly and then that error appears...
I found the solution from a user on #macports on irc.freenode.net
You need to run psql from a shell after running:
su -l postgres
To get a new shell running as the user postgres :)
And then it works!
I am trying to restore the postgres sql data from a file . I am trying to do so but it is not importing .
Here is the command which i am using:
postgres-# psql -hlocalhost -p5432 -u postgres -d test -f C:/wamp/www/test/database_backups/backup004.sql
Please help me what I am doing wrong .
I am using windows and the above command does not throws any error but it does not import data.
Regards
Surjan
The only immediate thing I can see there is the capitilsation of -u for username (should be -U).
Correction: You're typing the command line into the psql shell.
You should exit to the CMD.EXE shell, and try the command there. With the correct capitalisation of -U, by the way.
OR, use this to replay the script into that psql shell:
\i C:/wamp/www/test/database_backups/backup004.sql
The forward slashes don't cause a problem on my Windows machine.