Re: [GENERAL] importing a messy text file
On 04/30/2014 03:50 AM, Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Rémi Cura remi.c...@gmail.com
mailto:remi.c...@gmail.com wrote:
with latest version 9.3 you can use a copy from with a programm as
argument.
You can use the unix | pipe for most of the stuff.
If you have an older version you can use the mkfifo command to
trick postgres into believing he will copy from a file.
Hi, you're right i can see the new feature in the docs.
But since i am working from the (bash) command line already, i don't
see any use for this.
I already pass the data like this:
cat file |psql -c copy table from stdin NULL '' db
file.log 21
It's especially handy if you want to stay in sql(transaction), i gues.
Cheers,
--
Willy-Bas Loos
Unless you know this is the only problem (extra/missing tab) I would
triage the file with a scripting language. One favourite check is
awk '{a[NF]++}END{print Field count: Record count;for (i in
a){printf %11d : %d, i, a[i]}}
If you only have the tab problem you will get two lines of output with
field count = N, N-1. Take care in setting the field separator.
Re: [GENERAL] Altering array(composite-types) without breaking code when inserting them and similar questions
Sorry, I should not have top-posted (Dang iPhone). Continued below: On 04/20/2014 05:54 PM, Dorian Hoxha wrote: Because i always query the whole row, and in the other way(many tables) i will always join + have other indexes. On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Rob Sargent robjsarg...@gmail.com mailto:robjsarg...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you think you need an array of theType v. a dependent table of theType. This tack is of course immune to to most future type changess. Sent from my iPhone Interesting. Of course any decent mapper will return the whole row. And would it be less disk intensive as an array of struct ( where struct is implemented as an array). From other threads [1] [2] I've come to understand the datatype overhead per native type will be applied per type instance per array element. [1] 30K floats http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Is-it-reasonable-to-store-double-arrays-of-30K-elements-td5790562.html [2] char array http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/COPY-v-java-performance-comparison-tc5798389.html
Re: [GENERAL] How to evaluate if a query is correct?
On 09/19/2013 12:13 AM, Juan Daniel Santana Rodés wrote: Hi my friends... I wrote in the last post a question similiar to this. But in this post I clarify better the previous question. I need know how to evaluated if a query is correct without execute it. When I say if a query is correct, is that if I run the query, it did not throw an exception. For example... create or replace function is_correct(query text) returns boolean as $body$ Declare Begin -- Here I check if the query is correct, but I can't execute this query, because it may make changes in the data base End; $body$ language 'plpgsql'; Greetings __ Todos el 12 de Septiembre con una Cinta Amarilla FIN A LA INJUSTICIA, LIBERENLOS YA!! http://www.antiterroristas.cu http://justiciaparaloscinco.wordpress.com Is this an academic exercise or are you actually planning on checking sql then executing it if it's ok (according to your function). I love plpgsql but I don't think it's the best option for, just to get started, parsing the incoming sql text - that would be one nasty regexp :) rjs -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] Sum of columns
On 09/08/2013 07:12 PM, jane...@web.de wrote:
Hi,
this is my query:
SELECT user,
sum(CASE WHEN lev = 50 AND lev 70 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as a,
sum(CASE WHEN lev = 70 AND lev 80 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as b,
sum(CASE WHEN lev = 80 AND lev = 90 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as c,
sum(CASE WHEN lev 90 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as d,
(SELECT a + b + a + d) AS matches
FROM t_temp_fts
GROUP BY user'
I like to add up the 4 columns a,b,c and d of every user, but it
doesn't work like this.
Does anyone know a solution
Janek Sendrowski
How far does this get you?
insert into t_temp_fts values('rob', 51), ('rob', 71), ('rob', 81),
('rob', 91);
insert into t_temp_fts values('jon', 51), ('jon', 71), ('jon', 81),
('jon', 91);
SELECT distinct usern,
(select count(*) from t_temp_fts i where o.usern = i.usern and
lev = 50 AND lev 70) as a,
(select count(*) from t_temp_fts i where o.usern = i.usern and
lev = 70 AND lev 80)as b ,
(select count(*) from t_temp_fts i where o.usern = i.usern and
lev = 80 AND lev 90)as c ,
(select count(*) from t_temp_fts i where o.usern = i.usern and
lev 90) as d
from t_temp_fts o
;
usern | a | b | c | d
---+---+---+---+---
jon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
rob | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
(2 rows)
Re: [GENERAL] SQL Path in psql
On 09/06/2013 11:05 AM, miles wrote: Bobby Dewitt wrote I come from an Oracle background and I am fairly new to Postgres. Oracle's command line utility (SQL*Plus) uses an environment variable called SQLPATH to search the given directories for SQL scripts that the user calls to execute using a method similar to the \i meta-command in psql. This allows users to put SQL scripts in various directories and execute them no matter which directory is there current working directory in psql. Is there a similar environment variable that can be used with psql, or another way to mimic this behavior? I'm in the same boat as Bobby. Any feature like this exist? If not, how would it be requested? -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/SQL-Path-in-psql-tp4413658p5769925.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. I wonder if this would at least get the full path on-screen for a c/p \! for d in $SQLPATH; do find $d -name script-filename; done That said, I would down-vote this suggestion. I tend to put sql files in amongst my various project dirs and maintaining the envvar isn't worth it. Anything I re-use I make into a function. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] earthdistance
I just recently built the postgis stack (unbuntu 12.4) and had to go to the trunk (maybe 2.1) for postgis itself for a work-around a dependency failure on, ircc, geos. rjs On 08/10/2013 04:03 PM, Brent Wood wrote: Is there not a precompiled Postgis package you can use? There are a few dependencies, the PROJ.4 libraries you are missing enable projection support, and the package tools automatically manage such dependencies. I know packages are well supported for Debian, Ubuntu/Mint/etc, Suse Fedora. See: http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiInstall Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] on behalf of Olivier Chaussavoine [olivier.chaussavo...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:17 PM To: John R Pierce Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] earthdistance As a simple potential user, I tried to install PostGIS, downloaded all libraries required: proj-4.8.0, gdal-1.10.0,json-c,postgis-2.0.3,geos-3.3.8,libwml2-2.9.0, and tried to build the first library with the simple procedure: ./configure make make install I had a fatal error: make[2]: entrant dans le répertoire « /home/olivier/ob/proj-4.8.0/src » /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DPROJ_LIB=\/usr/local/share/proj\ -DMUTEX_pthread -g -O2 -MT jniproj.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/jniproj.Tpo -c -o jniproj.lo jniproj.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DPROJ_LIB=\/usr/local/share/proj\ -DMUTEX_pthread -g -O2 -MT jniproj.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/jniproj.Tpo -c jniproj.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/jniproj.o jniproj.c:52:26: fatal error: org_proj4_PJ.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. problem out of the scope of this list, and probably not /difficult. Since I look for a simple geographic indexing using imprecise lat,long coordinates that do not deal with precise modeling; that I am afraid of long install procedure, and heavy computations, I also give up. Spacial mysql indexing seems to be included in pre-built packages. What can we do? 2013/8/10 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.commailto:pie...@hogranch.com On 8/9/2013 5:18 PM, Brent Wood wrote: You might install Postgis to implement very powerful spatial functionality that can easily do what you are asking (plus a whole lot more). indeed, PostGIS is the logical answer, but the OP specifically stated he wanted the functionality without 'sophisticated geographic systems'. so I ignored the question. the alternative would be implementing your own spherical geometry functions, and hook them up to GiST indexing, its not that hard, but by the time you got all the functionality you need, you'd be half way to PostGIS, so why fight it? -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast -- Olivier Chaussavoine -- Please consider the environment before printing this email. NIWA is the trading name of the National Institute of Water Atmospheric Research Ltd. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] regexp_replace failing on 9.0.4
Maybe we're barking up the wrong tree by suspecting the regex itself. Perhaps the updates were suppressed by a trigger, or the transaction rolled back instead of committing, or some such? regards, tom lane Barking mad, more like it. I had rolled back the execution of my function in my dev env. and running again produces the same result as experienced in production system. Why the update of the text type field view regexp_replace is failing still confuses me, but that's pretty much my natural state. The size of the text field ranges from 7.5k to 24k char. Here is the update (again) update cms.segment_data s set text = regexp_replace(f.content, '(^.*)ns/acres/pathology/dx/1.5(.*$)', E'\\1ns/acres/pathology/dx/1.6\\2') from dm.payload_segment p, support.fix_pathdx_namespace f where s.id = p.segment_data_id and p.item_id = f.item_id and p.content_version = f.maxversion ; -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] psql copy from through bash
On 01/11/2013 11:32 AM, Kirk Wythers wrote: On Jan 11, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Szymon Guz mabew...@gmail.com mailto:mabew...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 January 2013 19:13, Kirk Wythers kwyth...@umn.edu mailto:kwyth...@umn.edu wrote: Can anyone see what I'm misisng? I am trying to run a psql copy from command through a bash script to load a buch of cdv files into the same table. I'm getting an error about the file infile not existing? #!/bin/sh for infile in /path_to_files/*.csv do cat infile | psql dbname -c \copy table_name FROM stdin with delimiter as ',' NULL AS 'NA' CSV HEADER done Thanks in advance -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org mailto:pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general Hi Kirk, maybe try this: cat $infile | Oh my goodness! Thanks you. Once more quickie. It seems that I am going to be asked for my password every time psql loops through the copy statement. What is considered best practices to handle authentication? I am connecting locally, as myself as the user and I'm being asked for my user password. I added the -w (no-password) to the psql statement, but now assume I need to add a .pgpass file or something. Suggestions? Yes a .pgpass file would work nicely
Re: [GENERAL] Is EXISTS the most efficient approach for PostgreSql to check for existence of nodes in a tree?
On 05/17/2012 03:06 AM, Seref Arikan wrote: I have a key value table in my Postgresql db, which represents hierarchical data through parent_feature_mapping column that points to id of feature_mapping_id column of the same table. I need to select root nodes that has children which satisfy various conditions. The conditions may extend to children of children, so I'm trying to find roots of trees that contain paths that satisfy the given constraints. An example is finding the trees where the root node has type 'COMPOSITION' and root node's archetypeNodeId attribute has value 'openEHR-EHR-COMPOSITION.discharge.v1' another constraint is root node having a child of type 'CONTENTITEM' that in turn has a child of type 'ITEMSTRUCTURE' All nodes in a tree have the same payload Id. The fastest query that I could write so far is given below. SELECT root.id http://root.id from path_value as root WHERE root.rm_type_name = 'COMPOSITION' AND root.feature_name = 'composition' AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 from path_value as anodeid WHERE anodeId.parent_feature_mapping_id = root.feature_mapping_id AND anodeId.payload_id = root.payload_id AND anodeId.feature_name = 'archetypeNodeId' AND anodeId.val_string = 'openEHR-EHR-COMPOSITION.discharge.v1' LIMIT 1 ) AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 from path_value as node1 WHERE node1.payload_id = root.payload_id AND node1.parent_feature_mapping_id = root.feature_mapping_id AND node1.feature_name = 'content' AND node1.rm_type_name = 'CONTENTITEM' AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 from path_value as node2 WHERE node2.payload_id = node1.payload_id AND node2.parent_feature_mapping_id = node1.feature_mapping_id AND node2.rm_type_name = 'ITEMSTRUCTURE' LIMIT 1) LIMIT 1) My question is: is this the best approach in terms of performance? This is an attempt to identify XML payloads that fit certain criteria. I have also considered using an ltree column that will contain the tree in a from that I can query as an alternative to sql based method, or I can use xpath queries on XML payload. The create statement for my table is as follows: CREATE TABLE public.path_value ( val_string TEXT, feature_mapping_id INTEGER NOT NULL, parent_feature_mapping_id INTEGER, feature_name TEXT, rm_type_name TEXT, path INTEGER NOT NULL, payload_id INTEGER NOT NULL, id INTEGER NOT NULL, ehr_id INTEGER, CONSTRAINT path_value_pkey PRIMARY KEY(id) ) WITHOUT OIDS; Best regards Seref Any other constraints or indexes on that table?
Re: [GENERAL] Bug? Query plans / EXPLAIN using gigabytes of memory
On 04/29/2012 07:19 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote: On 27/04/12 09:33, Tom Lane wrote: Toby Corkindaletoby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au writes: I've created a bit of a test case now. There's a Perl script here: http://dryft.net/postgres/ AFAICT, what is happening is that we're repeating the planning of that messy nest of views for each child table of foo. For most of the children the planner eventually decides that the join degenerates to nothing because of constraint exclusion, but not until it's expended a fair amount of time and memory space per child. I looked at whether we could improve that by having inheritance_planner use a temporary memory context per child, but that doesn't look very practical: it would add a good deal of extra data-copying overhead, and some of the data structures involved are not easily copiable. The general scheme of replanning per child might be questioned as well, but IMO it's fairly important given the looseness of inheritance restrictions --- it's not unlikely that you *need* different plans for different children. We might be able to reconsider that approach whenever we invent an explicit concept of partitioned tables, since presumably the partitions would all be essentially alike. In the meantime, the best advice I can come up with is to reconsider whether you need so many partitions. That mechanism is really designed for only a dozen or two partitions at most. Hi Tom, Thanks for looking into this, I appreciate you spending the time. The system I've come up with for partitioning this data requires quite a lot of partitions - say thirty to seventy - but I didn't realise it would cause trouble down the line, so I'll see if it can be reworked to reduce the number. For what it's worth, the actual query that was blowing out to gigabytes was only hitting a couple of dozen partitions per table it was touching - but it was hitting three such tables, about sixteen times (!) each. I'm still curious about why I can do a SELECT * FROM complexview without using much memory, but an UPDATE foo FROM complexview causes all the memory to get exhausted? Thanks, Toby Does UPDATE foo set values where foo.id in (select id from complexview...) also swallow the memory? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] Unfamous 'could not read block ... in file ...: read only 0 of 8192 bytes' again
On 02/20/2012 07:46 PM, Maxim Boguk wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Maxim Boguk maxim.bo...@gmail.com mailto:maxim.bo...@gmail.com writes: Do you know why the mod date on the file is 2012-02-20 12:04? Cron was attempt to populate the table once per hour after that problem happened. And each time it was produced the same error. That's interesting ... is there any possibility that the insertions were attempting to insert values that matched a previously-existing primary key value? I'm thinking there's no reason for the INSERT per se to be touching nonexistent blocks, but if for some reason the pkey index still had entries pointing at vanished rows (as it seems to) then the errors could be coming from uniqueness checks attempting to fetch those rows to see if they're live. regards, tom lane Hi, There isn't possibility but close to 100% new inserted values were matched a previously-existing primary key value. The table is hand-made 'materialyzed view'-type statistic table which is getting recalculated via cron. -- Maxim Boguk Senior Postgresql DBA. Sorry Maxim, Trying to follow along here: Are you say the inserted record DO or DO NOT match previously existing key values.
Re: [GENERAL] Appending a newline to a column value - in a psql cronjob
On 01/13/2012 05:11 AM, Alexander Farber wrote: Hello! I'm using PostgreSQL 8.4.9 on CentOS 6.2 and with bash. The following cronjob works well for me (trying to send a mail to myself - for moderation): 6 6 * * * psql -c select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id, about from pref_rep where length(about) 1 and last_rated now() - interval '1 day' but I can't figure out how to append a newline to the 1st value (because otherwise the line is too long and I have to scroll right in my mail reader): What I've tried sofar: # history 1001 psql -c select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id||'\n', about from . 1002 psql -c select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id||'\\n', about from . 1003 psql -c select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id|| \\n, about from . 1004 psql -c select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id|| \\\n\, about from . 1005 psql -c select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id|| \\n\, about from . 1006 psql -c select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id|| \'\n\', about from . Thank you Alex Given that it's a constant, I would just drop the http header :) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] 9.1.2: Preventing connections / syncing a database
On 01/01/2012 11:51 AM, Jay Levitt wrote: revoke connect on database rails_dev from public; select pg_terminate_backend(procpid) from pg_stat_activity where datname='rails_dev'; Still, the app can reconnect. (So can psql.) So... 1. How can I prevent (or redirect, or timeout, or anything) new connections? I think superuser roles might be exempt from connection limits and privileges. I could repeatedly terminate backends until I'm able to rename the database, but... ick. 2. What's a better way to slave to a master database without being a read-only slave? In other words, we want to use the production database as a starting point each morning, but we'll be creating test rows and tables that we wouldn't want to propagate to production. Can I do this while the database is live through some existing replication tool? The production database is on Ubuntu but the workstations are Macs, FWIW. Jay More along the lines of what Greg has said. Not clear to me why an individual dev box needs to be that current data-wise. Of course stopping and starting your app should be easy, especially for the developers so maybe that's a better place to start. Then dev can do it when and how often suits dev best (even cronning shutdown app; reload db; to happen 3am Sundays) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
[GENERAL] reading build config.log -- possible bug?
Looking to see where my new data directory is in recently built 9.1 I
happened upon what could potentially be a bug in configure:
Just after the line which begins configure_args= (line 11068 for me,
99% of buffer) I find:
datadir='${datarootdir}'
datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
I'm troubled that datadir may be getting set too early since that's the
first mention of either variable in config.log? I don't see 'datadir'
anywhere else in the file but that's not abnormal.
Paranoid but maybe they _are_ after me,
rjs
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Re: [GENERAL] reading build config.log -- possible bug?
On 11/27/2011 09:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Rob Sargentgrobjsarg...@gmail.com writes:
Looking to see where my new data directory is in recently built 9.1 I
happened upon what could potentially be a bug in configure:
Just after the line which begins configure_args= (line 11068 for me,
99% of buffer) I find:
datadir='${datarootdir}'
datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
I'm troubled that datadir may be getting set too early since that's the
first mention of either variable in config.log? I don't see 'datadir'
anywhere else in the file but that's not abnormal.
I think you're reading the alphabetized dump of variables' final values,
no?
regards, tom lane
Ah, yes... Note to self: Step back, see the larger picture...
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[GENERAL] 9.1.1 build failure : postgres link fails
I just got round to updating my laptop to ubuntu-10.4 (32bit), in part because I kept hitting snags while trying to configure postgres 9.1.1. The upgrade did in fact solve the dependency issues (though I was surprised UUID came along with out the ossp specific impl??) but the build is having troubles linking the server executable. Here's my configure line: ./configure --with-pgport=5439 --with-perl --with-python --with-openssl --with-ldap --with-ossp-uuid --with-libxml --with-libxslt and the tail of the configure output: configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating GNUmakefile config.status: creating src/Makefile.global config.status: creating src/include/pg_config.h config.status: creating src/interfaces/ecpg/include/ecpg_config.h config.status: linking src/backend/port/tas/dummy.s to src/backend/port/tas.s config.status: linking src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.c to src/backend/port/dynloader.c config.status: linking src/backend/port/sysv_sema.c to src/backend/port/pg_sema.c config.status: linking src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c to src/backend/port/pg_shmem.c config.status: linking src/backend/port/unix_latch.c to src/backend/port/pg_latch.c config.status: linking src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.h to src/include/dynloader.h config.status: linking src/include/port/linux.h to src/include/pg_config_os.h config.status: linking src/makefiles/Makefile.linux to src/Makefile.port ubuntu-10.4 is not the latest of course and comes with gnu make 3.8.1, but it seems to compile everything then fails to link postgres executable: gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -L../../src/port -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/local/pgsql/lib',--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-E TONS OF DOT OHs ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a -lxslt -lxml2 -lssl -lcrypto -lcrypt -ldl -lm -lldap -o postgres postmaster/postmaster.o: In function `PostmasterMain': postmaster.c:(.text+0x48d7): undefined reference to `optreset' tcop/postgres.o: In function `process_postgres_switches': postgres.c:(.text+0x1312): undefined reference to `optreset' utils/misc/ps_status.o: In function `set_ps_display': ps_status.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to `setproctitle' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [postgres] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rob/tools/postgresql-9.1.1/src/backend' make[1]: *** [all-backend-recurse] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rob/tools/postgresql-9.1.1/src' make: *** [all-src-recurse] Error 2 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] 9.1.1 build failure : postgres link fails
On 11/20/2011 11:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Rob Sargentrobjsarg...@gmail.com writes: On 11/20/2011 09:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote: It appears that on Ubuntu, libbsd defines those symbols, which confuses configure into supposing that they're provided by libc, and then the link fails because libbsd isn't actually linked into the postmaster. The question is what's pulling in libbsd though. In the previous report it came via libedit, which you're not using. I'd try looking in the config.log file to see what it was linking in the test that decided setproctitle was available, and then using ldd on each of those libraries to see which one(s) require libbsd. Will do. Then there's always trying Ubuntu-11? Couldn't say. But re-reading this, I wonder if maybe you *are* using libedit. Have you got readline installed? If not, configure will try libedit as second choice ... so maybe the best fix is to install readline (and don't forget readline-devel or local equivalent). regards, tom lane I built readline-6.2 from source and got passed linking 'postgres' executable. Progress! now chasing down libperl gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fpic -shared -o plperl.so plperl.o SPI.o Util.o -L../../../src/port -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE',--enable-new-dtags -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [plperl.so] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rob/tools/postgresql-9.1.1/src/pl/plperl' make[2]: *** [all-plperl-recurse] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rob/tools/postgresql-9.1.1/src/pl' make[1]: *** [all-pl-recurse] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rob/tools/postgresql-9.1.1/src' make: *** [all-src-recurse] Error 2 I had to make a simlink 'ln -s /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10 /usr/lib/libperl.so' which I thought was supposed to happen automagically... BUT make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rob/tools/postgresql-9.1.1/config' All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install. PostgreSQL installation complete. Thank you Tom for the readline tip. Sort of thing that would take me forever to track down. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
