I need to add an extension called unaccent to my postgres database.
Postgres version PostgreSQL version: 9.3rc1
I have a problem to install the extension.
What i did:
sudo apt-get install postgresql-contrib-9.1
I know it's with 9.1 version, but on my test server i did everyting the same with postgres version 9.4, and everything works.
When i run a script on my production server
CREATE EXTENSION unaccent schema pg_catalog;
it throws me an error :
could not open extension control file "/usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/unaccent.control": Directory or file doesn't exist
What is the problem in this case? Extension has been installed into "wrong" (i guess) directory /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/extension instead of usr/local/pgsql/share/extension
Is there any chance to make postgres look into other directory than default for extensions?
Don't use PostgreSQL 9.3rc1. Just don't. That's not a production version.
You have to install the contrib modules from the same source and in the same version as PostgreSQL core. Everything else won't work.
So this is what you should do:
Upgrade PostgreSQL to something more recent, at leat 9.3.14.
Install the contrib modules from the same provider in the same version.
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I have just upgraded my development postgres cluster from postgreSQL 9.6 to 11. Everything went fine except that I got an error around the pgtap extension that I use for unit testing.
Now when I try to restore a database I'm getting an error
"ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/share/postgresql/11/extension/pgtap.control"
When I look in the file system I can see all the pgtap files are still in /usr/share/postgresql/9.6/extension.
I tried uninstalling pgtap running sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove pgtap and then re-installing but this hasn't worked, all the files are still in the 9.6 directory.
pgTAP is a third-party extension, you won't find anything about it in the PostgreSQL manual.
You will have to install it separately in your v11 PostgreSQL installation. See the installation instructions for pgTAP.
I have installed Postgresql#9.6 and Postgis via Homebrew. However, installing Postgis via Homebrew installs the latest version of Postgresql at 10 as dependency and pinning Postgresql at 9.6.5 blocks the install of Postgis via Homebrew.
Performing 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis;' returns:
ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql#9.6/9.6.5/share/postgresql#9.6/extension/postgis.control": No such file or directory
I've also tried uninstalling the Postgresql (at 10) and editing the Postgis formula to depend on Postgres#9.6 instead of Postgresql.
This is similar to How to install Postgis to a Keg installation of Postgres#9.5 using Homebrew? but with a later keg formula
I managed to do it after many combinations.
In a nutshell, solution is to install the old version of the original package postgres, switch to it, and install the old version of postgis.
Install postgres
1/ Install the current version of postgres (10.1 as speaking)
brew install postgres
2/ Install the old version of postgres using its old formula. Proper link can be found using github or git log on the Tap repo (/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/).
brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/d014fa223f77bee4b4097c5e80faa0954e28182f/Formula/postgresql.rb
This will install the version 9.6.5 (last one before 10.x series).
3/ Switch to it so links are defaulted to postgres 9.6
brew switch postgres 9.6.5
Install postgis
4/ Install old version of postgis (2.3). This is using the same sha version of the Formula so everything is linked correctly (using the current postgis will expect postgresql 10, so it will end up to a version mismatch when initializing extension).
brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/d014fa223f77bee4b4097c5e80faa0954e28182f/Formula/postgis.rb
Use them
5/ If required initialise the DB
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
6/ Create and use your DB
createdb mydb
psql mydb
mydb=# CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
Installing PEX, a package manager for Postgresql allowed me to install Postgis for the keg version of Postgresql#9.6 and use CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
This isn't a Homebrew solution but after a lot of searching, it finally allowed me to use Postgis.
HelloI ran into this same problem of multiple implementation of pgsql versions including legacy ones. So after a bit of research I would like to share my solution.
Problem:
I am working on a macbook pro 2013 with 10.11 el capitan. I am GIS developer and extensive user of homebrew. I didn't pin the postgresql package for compatibility reasons. Thus, the package got updated to postgresql version 10.5 along other packages. This caused me to be unable to use postgresql version 9.4. The cleverest solution would have been to use a brew switch postgresql 9.4.19. Except that when compiling postgis 2.5.0 from osgeo/osgeo4mac it defautls (looks for) the postgresql binary folder to install the symlinked (or not) extensions. Here again another compatibility problem. One could tinker a bit with homebrew files and transfer files manually. That's ill advice...the package manager (homebrew) needs to stay a coherent ecosystem to provide for a stable workspace.
Proposed Solution:
Go here BigSQL and download the dmg of your chosen version
install the software where you want in your filesystem
within the installation folder you'll find a directory named pg9x ; x being the version number (e.g pg95 for postgresql 9.5 and so on...
in this folder you'll find a file named pg9x.env
source this file to your .profile with source /your/path/pg9x/pg9x.env line
in the main installation folder, for instance /your/path/pg9x/, you'll finde a python script called pgc, alias it to your .profile with alias pgc="your/path/pgc"
save your .profile and refresh your environment variable with source .profile on the command prompt
still within the command prompt, type pgc list, you'll get a list of installed packages. You'll see the version of postgesql you've downloaded
to install another version of postgresql, say 9.6, type pgc install pg96
to install postgis for pg95 type pgc install postgis22-pg95
to install postgis for pg96 type pgc install postgis23-pg96
now, after installation you'll need to initialize the downloaded component with pgc init pg96 or pgc init postgis23-pg96 etc...
to check if your daemon is running correctly type pgc status
to start a version daemon of your choice type for example pgc start pg95
to stop a version daemon of your choice type pgc stop pg95
the installation also comes with an LTS release of pgadmin3 that works fine with all versions (not the case of brew version of pgadmin3), this is very convenient
type pgc help for more options
Let the elephant dance^^
Hope this helps.
Spicy.
I faced a similar issue and what worked for me was to follow the instructions at https://github.com/CloverHealth/homebrew-tap, which seem similar in spirit to #Antwan's solution but with a few more clean up steps, also it gets slightly later versions: postgresql 9.6.10 and postgis 2.5.
My steps differed slightly from those at CloverHealth: My brew version no longer supports brew switch postgresql 9.6.10 and I tried first brew link postgresql#9.6.10 and then brew link postgresql#9.6 but both gave
Error: no such keg
Trying brew search postgresql showed a little green checkmark next to the cloverhealth Formulae, so I tried brew link cloverhealth/tap/postgresql and got
Warning: Already linked: /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.6.10
So, ok it was already linked. Other than that my steps were the same as described at the CloverHealth page, and now I'm up and running again.
I have installed Postgresql#9.5 to my OSX El Capitan Machine using Homebrew 1.2. Unfortunately, upon installing Postgis, and performing CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
It returns,
ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql#9.5/9.5.6/share/postgresql#9.5/extension/postgis.control": No such file or directory
I tried, uninstalling all postgresql and install only the 9.5 version, and then installing postgis but to no avail.
I think I got a similar question but this one is only for Ubuntu.
how to change install postgis location? postgres
This discussion also instruct to install postgresql using # notation but didn't tell that it will create a non-comformant directory name
After succesfully installing postgresql 9.2.2 from source (on OpenSUSE 11.4, which does not have this version in the repositories), I am trying to restore a database that makes use of the pg_trgm extension. This results in errors because pg_trgm is not found.
From this StackOverflow question: Similarity function in Postgres with pg_trgm, I gather that pg_trgm should be in /usr/share/postgresql//contrib, but there is no contrib folder anywhere in my /usr tree.
Also, I cannot seem to find a clear explanation of how the postgres extension mechanism works, or how to manually install an extension.
There is a contrib folder in the postgresql source tree, but I am not sure how to use this. Should I manually copy this somewhere to /usr tree? Can anyone point me to (or give) an explanation of how to install an extension like pg_trgm in postgresql?
Assuming you have configured postgresql with ./configure, it has used the default prefix /usr/local/pgsql, so that everything gets installed below that directory.
The answer you link to relates to Debian, which uses a different layout that conforms to the Debian policy, but in your case /usr/share... is irrelevant. Anyway it's not really necessary to know that in order to install stuff from contrib, since there is no need to copy anything manually.
To install the pg_trgm extension from source, there are two steps:
1) build and install it from your postgresql source tree:
$ cd /path/to/src/postgresql-9.2.2/contrib/pg_trgm
$ make
$ sudo make install # or su -c 'make install' if you don't use sudo
2) activate it with psql in your database:
$ sudo -u postgres psql -d database -c "create extension pg_trgm;"
To have it activated by default on any database created in the future, apply this command to the template1 database.
I've use Postgresql in the Centos 7 and the package with the pg_trgm allowed to install:
$yum install postgresql-contrib
I want to restore a database in PostgreSQL but it can't. I have replaced pg_restore in bin folder but it's still not working. The message is :
pg_restore: [archiver] unsupported version (1.12) in file header
I solved this by upgrading postgresql from 8.X to 9.2.4. If you're using brew on Mac OS-X, use -
brew upgrade postgresql
Once this is done, just make sure your new postgres installation is at the top of your path. It'll look something like (depending on the version installation path) -
export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.4/bin:$PATH
This occurs when the archive was created with a version newer than the pg_restore you are using can support. The best way to fix this is to install a newer version of pg_restore. Note that this limitation has more recently gone away. I can use pg_restore from 9.1 against a 9.2 custom dump file for example.