I am trying to run psql with user postgres. When I run sudo su - postgres AND THEN psql from within the new session, it is working smoothly. In fact, the ~/.bashrc in that session with use postgres has the correct PATH.
However, if I run sudo -u postgres psql, I get sudo: psql: command not found. Even though the session where I am running this command (I use the FISH shell) has the correct PATH as well, and I can invoke psql without the full path with my user.
I need to invoke the command as sudo -u postgres psql, how can this behavior be explained?
Edit: if (from FISH) I switch to BASH and run sudo -u postgres psql, it works! I guess it has to do with the FISH path then...
Edit 2: The issue seems to be that the PATH is reset when using sudo.
➜ ~ psql
psql: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL: role "opc" does not exist
➜ ~ sudo -u postgres psql
sudo: psql: command not found
➜ ~ echo $PATH
/home/opc/.local /home/opc/.local/bin /usr/pgsql-15/bin /usr/pgsql-15/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/sbin
➜ ~ sudo echo $PATH
/home/opc/.local /home/opc/.local/bin /usr/pgsql-15/bin /usr/pgsql-15/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/sbin
➜ ~ sudo -u postgres /usr/pgsql-15/bin/psql
could not change directory to "/home/opc": Permission denied
psql (15.1)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=#
But if I echo $PATH with sudo, it seems fine...
This is caused by a sudo configuration that has the "secure_path" setting. This causes sudo to reset $PATH to a hardcoded "known safe" value. This might be enabled by your distribution.
When you run sudo bash, that bash will read its settings, including .bashrc, and if you set $PATH in that it will then, of course, have that $PATH again.
But if you run a command without going through a shell that resets $PATH, you'll get the hardcoded setting.
It's possible to change that setting by running sudo visudo and changing the line that says
Defaults secure_path="some:path:here"
to
Defaults !secure_path
An alternative is to just run the command via the fully qualified path, like
sudo -u postgres (command -s psql)
One more comment about your tests:
sudo echo $PATH
This doesn't do what you want. The $PATH will be expanded by the shell that runs sudo, and so sudo won't ever see anything but the value of it. It is exactly equivalent to running sudo echo /home/opc/.local /home/opc/.local/bin /usr/pgsql-15/bin ....
You might want to use something like
sudo env
or
sudo sh -c 'echo $PATH'
instead.
i'm currently developping a Django server where i need a database, Sqlite3 don't seem to handle well my need so i'm trying to use PostgreSQL instead. I'm devellopping on Windows but the server will run on a Linux system once development is done, so i'm trying to use WSL to fit the expected result.
wsl -l -v
NAME STATE VERSION
Ubuntu-22.04 Running 1
I also updated to WSL2, same issue.
My issue is that i can't start the database :
# sudo service postgresql start
No PostgreSQL clusters exist; see "man pg_createcluster"
What i've done so far :
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib
// it s installed
> psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 14.2 (Ubuntu 14.2-1ubuntu1)
// no service currently running
> ps aux| grep postgres
root 583 0.0 0.0 15044 1280 tty3 S 08:42 0:00 grep --color=auto postgres
// no cluster ?!?
> sudo service postgresql start
No PostgreSQL clusters exist; see "man pg_createcluster"
// indeed no cluster are created by default
> pg_lsclusters
Ver Cluster Port Status Owner Data directory Log file
// but i can t create one
> pg_createcluster 14.2 main
Error: no initdb program for version 14.2 found
> sudo pg_createcluster 14 main
Creating new PostgreSQL cluster 14/main ...
/usr/lib/postgresql/14/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/14/main --auth-local peer --auth-host scram-sha-256 --no-instructions
Can't exec "/usr/lib/postgresql/14/bin/initdb": Permission denied at /usr/bin/pg_createcluster line 86.
Error: Could not open /etc/postgresql/14/main/start.conf for writing: Permission denied
Can't exec "/bin/sh": Permission denied at /usr/bin/pg_createcluster line 617.
Error: initdb failed
I also tried : this stackoverflow link
> sudo service --status-all
// ...
[ - ] postgresql
// ...
> sudo ps aux | grep postgres
root 769 0.0 0.0 15044 1284 tty3 S 08:48 0:00 grep --color=auto postgres
I didn't really understand this link : Change some config file that i can't find
And this one that only proposed to reformat my disk.. Link
Following Mark's Link i was able to find a solution.
It seems that WSL2 is required
I tried 2 wsl distro :
Ubuntu-22.04 -> Didn't work even with the guide, maybe it would work on a fresh install.
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS -> fresh install worked
# Create the file repository configuration:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
# Import the repository signing key:
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
# Update the package lists:
sudo apt-get update
# Install the latest version of PostgreSQL.
# If you want a specific version, use 'postgresql-12' or similar instead of 'postgresql':
sudo apt-get -y install postgresql postgresql-contrib
I have postgres installed on an ubuntu machine, and I am able to enter into the command line via something along the lines of:
$ sudo -u postgres psql
psql (10.15 (Ubuntu 10.15-0ubuntu0.18.04.1))
Type "help" for help.
postgres=#
And I can start/stop the server by doing something like:
$ sudo service postgresql
Usage: /etc/init.d/postgresql {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status} [version ..]
Those both seem fine. However, I would like to run postgres in single-user mode to do a couple tests. On the postgres page it gives a few examples, such as:
To start a single-user mode server, use a command like
postgres --single -D /usr/local/pgsql/data other-options my_database
However, if I use the 'postgres' command, I just get an error saying I don't have that command:
$ postgres
Command 'postgres' not found, did you mean:
What do I need to install to run the 'postgres' command in order to enter single-user mode?
as you have not export the binary path that's why it's can't find your binary of postgres.
use this command:
/usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/postgres --single -D /usr/local/pgsql/data other-options my_database
or,
you can export the path in bash
first open the bashrc with this command:nano ~/.bashrc
add this line in the end :PATH="/usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/:$PATH"
run this command source ~/.bashrc
the just use postgres --single -D /usr/local/pgsql/data other-options my_database
you can also find where your binary is with this command : find /usr/lib -iname 'postgres'
It is already installed, it is just not in your PATH, as it is not anticipated you would use it manually.
It is probably somewhere like "/usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/postgres", or you can use locate or find to find it.
Ubuntu has conf files spread over several places so:
/usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/postgres --single -D /var/lib/postgresql/13/main -c "config_file=/etc/postgresql/13/main/postgresql.conf"
I just installed postgresql on a Macbook with brew install postgresql. Then I try to psql, but it requires password and then show psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "<myname>".
I have not set up anything, and inputting my mac password does nothing. What should I do now?
So your username probably does not exist, as the default username that ships with the db is postgres.
Further, I was prevented from the submission of an empty password, which is blank by default for the postgres user.
You might try
cd ~/
sudo -u postgres psql -c "ALTER USER postgres PASSWORD 'postgres';"
Password: YOUR_LOGIN_PWD_HERE (required for sudo)
and then to use
psql -U postgres
password: postgres
I'm not 100% sure of which SO answer I got this from, perhaps here. Hope this helps.
The above did not work for me.
The below steps worked for me:
Step 1: Uninstall Postgres using the following steps:
sudo /Library/PostgreSQL/10/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS/uninstall-postgresql
PS: my postgres version is 10
Step 2: Remove Postgresql user
System Preference > userse & Groups > Unlock > remove postgresql user by clicking "-"
Step 3: Remove existing databases
rm -rf /usr/local/var/postgres/*
Step 4: Install and Start Postgres using brew
brew update
brew install postgresql
brew services start postgresql
Step 5: Create database
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
You can start accessing postgres
psql -h localhost -d postgres
The answer by Pramida almost worked for me... the difference is I was using 9.6 Postgres.
So I ran:
sudo
/Library/PostgreSQL/9.6/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS/installbuilder.sh
and somehow that got rid of my username and almost all of postgres user. I think
I then blew away the directory
sudo rm -rf /Library/PostgreSQL/9.6
And then I installed using brew above.
in my case macboook big sur v 11 you should create /var/postgresql#12 in Mackbook/usr/local
and open terminal in /opt/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql#12/12.8/bin and run
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql#12/12.8/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/var/postgresql#12
then run in terminal
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql#12/12.8/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
then
psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d postgres
and enjoy creating user
rm -rf /usr/local/var/postgres && initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
I am trying to dump a Postgresql database using the pg_dump tool.
$ pg_dump books > books.out
How ever i am getting this error.
pg_dump: server version: 9.2.1; pg_dump version: 9.1.6
pg_dump: aborting because of server version mismatch
The --ignore-version option is now deprecated and really would not be a a solution to my issue even if it had worked.
How can I upgrade pg_dump to resolve this issue?
Check the installed version(s) of pg_dump:
find / -name pg_dump -type f 2>/dev/null
My output was:
/usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/pg_dump
/usr/bin/pg_dump
There are two versions installed. To update pg_dump with the newer version:
sudo ln -s /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/pg_dump /usr/bin/pg_dump --force
This will create the symlink to the newer version.
I encountered this while using Heroku on Ubuntu, and here's how I fixed it:
Add the PostgreSQL apt repository as described at "Linux downloads (Ubuntu)
". (There are similar pages for other operating systems.)
Upgrade to the latest version (9.3 for me) with:
sudo apt-get install postgresql
Recreate the symbolic link in /usr/bin with:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_dump /usr/bin/pg_dump --force
The version number in the /usr/lib/postgresql/... path above should match the server version number in the error you received. So if your error says, pg_dump: server version: 9.9, then link to /usr/lib/postgresql/9.9/....
Macs have a builtin /usr/bin/pg_dump command that is used as default.
With the postgresql install you get another binary at /Library/PostgreSQL/<version>/bin/pg_dump
You can just locate pg_dump and use the full path in command
locate pg_dump
/usr/bin/pg_dump
/usr/bin/pg_dumpall
/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_dump
/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_dumpall
/usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/pg_dump
/usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/pg_dumpall
Now just use the path of the desired version in the command
/usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/pg_dump books > books.out
You can either install PostgreSQL 9.2.1 in the pg_dump client machine or just copy the $PGHOME from the PostgreSQL server machine to the client machine. Note that there is no need to initdb a new cluster in the client machine.
After you have finished installing the 9.2.1 software, remember to edit some environment variables in your .bash_profile file.
If you're on Ubuntu, you might have an old version of postgresql-client installed. Based on the versions in your error message, the solution would be the following:
sudo apt-get remove postgresql-client-9.1
sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-9.2
If you have docker installed you can do something like:
$ docker run postgres:9.2 pg_dump books > books.out
That will download the Docker container with Postgres 9.2 in it, run pg_dump inside of the container, and write the output.
On Ubuntu you can simply add the most recent Apt repository and then run:
sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-11
Every time you upgrade or re install a new version of PostgreSQL, a latest version of pg_dump is installed.
There must be a PostgreSQL/bin directory somewhere on your system, under the latest version of PostgreSQL that you've installed ( 9.2.1 is latest) and try running the
pg_dump from in there.
For those running Postgres.app:
Add the following code to your .bash_profile:
export PATH=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin:$PATH
Restart terminal.
For Macs with Homebrew. I had this problem when fetching the db from Heroku. I've fixed it just running:
brew upgrade postgresql
For mac users
put to the top of .profile file.
export PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin:$PATH"
then run
. ~/.profile
An alternative answer that I don't think anyone else has covered.
If you have multiple PG clusters installed (as I do), then you can view those using pg_lsclusters.
You should be able to see the version and cluster from the list displayed.
From there, you can then do this:
pg_dump --cluster=9.6/main books > books.out
Obviously, replace the version and cluster name with the appropriate one for your circumstances from what is returned by pg_lsclusters separating the version and cluster with a /. This targets the specific cluster you wish to run against.
For me the issue was updating psql apt-get wasn't resolving newer versions, even after update. The following worked.
Ubuntu
Start with the import of the GPG key for PostgreSQL packages.
sudo apt-get install wget ca-certificates
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
Now add the repository to your system.
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/
As explained, this is because your postgresql is in old version -> update it
For Mac via homebrew:
brew tap petere/postgresql,
brew install <formula> (eg: brew install petere/postgresql/postgresql-9.6)
Remove old postgre:
brew unlink postgresql
brew link -f postgresql-9.6
If any error happen, don't forget to read and follow brew instruction in each step.
Check this out for more: https://github.com/petere/homebrew-postgresql
The answer sounds silly but if you get the above error and wanna run the pg_dump for earlier version go to bin directory of postgres and type
./pg_dump servername > out.sql ./ ignores the root and looks for pg_dump in current directory
I had same error and this is how I solved it in my case.
This means your postgresql version is 9.2.1 but you have started postgresql service of 9.1.6.
If you run psql postgres you will see:
psql (9.2.1, server 9.1.6)
What I did to solve this problem is:
brew services stop postgresql#9.1.6
brew services restart postgresql#9.2.1
Now run psql postgres and you should have: psql (9.2.1)
You can also run brew services list to see the status of your postgres.
This worked for me, a collection of solutions from above and other sites. If you specified a version like postgressql-client-11 before then you need to remove that version first.
sudo apt-get remove -y postgresql-client
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y postgresql-client-12
I was facing the same issue. I used docker instead of upgrading pg_dump.
run following command to create a Docker container of postgres 14.2, or any other version as you like.
sudo docker run --name mac_postgres -p 5444:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password -d postgres:14.2
Then take dump using following command. Note: you should change the host, port, username and password according to your actual database credentials.
sudo docker exec -it mac_postgres pg_dump --host=xxxxx0.b.db.ondigitalocean.com --port=250xx --username=doadmin --dbname=test --password > out.sql
After entering password. Your dump will be ready in out.sql file. Then you can delete the docker-container.
sudo docker stop mac_postgres
sudo docker rm mac_postgres
If you're using Heroku's Postgres.app the pg_dump (along with all the other binaries) is in /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/
so in that case it's
ln -s /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/pg_dump /usr/local/bin/pg_dump
or
ln -s /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/* /usr/local/bin/.
to just grab them all
** after install postgres version is match(9.2)
Create a symbolic link or new shortcut
**- on '/usr/bin'
syntag is = sudo ln -s [path for use] [new shortcut name]
example
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/pg_dump new_pg_dump
-- how to call : new_pg_dump -h 192.168.9.88 -U postgres database
Try that:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
If the database is installed on a different machine it has probably correct version of pg_dump installed. This means that you can execute pg_dump command remotely with SSH:
ssh username#dbserver pg_dump books > books.out
You can also use public key authentication for passwordless execution. Steps to achieve that:
Generate (if not yet done) a pair of keys with ssh-keygen command.
Copy the public key to the database server, usually ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
Test if the connection works with ssh command.
Well, I had the same issue as I have two postgress versions installed.
Just use the proper pg_dump and you don't need to change anything, in your case:
$> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/pg_dump books > books.out
For macs, use find / -name pg_dump -type f 2>/dev/null find the location of pg_dump
For me, I have following results:
Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.5/bin/pg_dump
/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.4.5_2/bin/pg_dump
If you don't want to use sudo ln -s new_pg_dump old_pg_dump --force, just use:
Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.5/bin/pg_dump to replace with pg_dump in your terminal
For example:
Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.5/bin/pg_dump books > books.out
It works for me!
On my scenario the production version was 12, and my development version was 11, upgrading the package postgresql-client-xx was enough to solve my incident.
Reference web page : https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade postgresql-client
One interest thing to point out is that after the upgrade the previous version kept installed :
mlazo#mlazo-pc:~$ dpkg -l |grep -i postgresql-client
ii postgresql-client-11 11.8-1.pgdg18.04+1 amd64 front-end programs for PostgreSQL 11
ii postgresql-client-12 12.4-1.pgdg18.04+1 amd64 front-end programs for PostgreSQL 12
Hope my experience would be helpful to someone.
Greetings,
I had the same message, for me it was that I had to adjust the following:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pgsql-12/lib:....
export LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/pgsql-12/lib:.....
First step: see if postgres has a repository with prebuilt binaries for the version you want for your OS: https://www.postgresql.org/download/
If that doesn't work (for instance if your distro is there but is no longer supported, so correct binaries aren't provided for it), or if you just want to go straight or the source and not have to worry about adding remote repo's, etc.
What I did is download the raw source of postgres for the desired version.
Untar it, cd into it, build it ./configure && make, then:
postgresql-12.3 $ find . -name pg_dump
./src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump
$ ./src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump
unable to load libpg.so.5 # if it says this...
$ find . -name libpg.so.5
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/your/path/to/the/shared/dir/of/above/file
$ ./src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump # works now
Now you have access to any version that builds on your box. Which should be any.
Full steps tutorial
Your local version needs to match the one used by AWS on the remote server.
Unfortunately, apt-get install will lag behind the official release.
So you need to proceed the following way:
sudo apt-get remove postgresql
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
Then check your error message should be something like
pg_dump: server version: 12.3; pg_dump version: 10.16 (Ubuntu 10.16-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
So it means you want version 12 (and not 13), for the install of the matching version by specifying the version number (without minor) during your fresh install:
sudo apt-get -y install postgresql-12
Now it works:
pg_dump -h {{endpoint}} -U {{username}} -f dump.sql {{tablename}}
NB: You get the endpoint in Connectivity & security go to https://us-east-2.console.aws.amazon.com/rds/home?region=us-east-2 and click on your DB instance
For Ubuntu 20.04 with the "official" postgresql repo, moving from pg12 to pg13, I had to do this:
sudo apt purge postgresql-12
This was very hard for me to pinpoint. I had played with a variety of these packages:
postgresql-client
postgresql-client-common
postgresql-##
postgresql-client-##
postgresql-server-dev-##
pgadmin