Re: Restoring Database created on windows on FreeBSD

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:23 +0200, postgresql@bryden.co.za wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am very new to FreeBSD (Windows Background), but am busy trying to
> implement a PostgreSQL database that I have running in the Windows
> environemtn on FreeBSD. Naturally, most of my problems so far have been
> geeting to grips with FreeBSD.
>
> Anyway, I am having a problem at the moment. Having being previously
> spoilt with the ease of installation on windows, I am sure that I have
> missed the boat on something.

Freebsd ports is an amazingly easy way to install software.


> I downloaded the latest port for PostgreSQL-8.0.4 from postgresql.org.

the postgresq website does not have Freebsd ports ... just source code
from what I can see.

> I
> followed the instructions in the documentation and all seemed to work. I
> have successfully created "test" databases and have happily managed to
> connect to the new PostgreSQL server using psql and pgAdmin III(on
> windows). I have now backed up my DB from windows and have created a new
> database on the BSD server. When restoring this DB I got a lot of errors
> related to some of the system installed functions. I then realised that
> the PostgreSQL installation on FreeBSD did not install any of the contrib
> modules. I went to the /contrib folder in the port I used to to install
> postgreSQL (/usr/ports/database/postgresql-8.0.4/contrib). I excluded
> /cube and /mysql from the MakeFile (cube seemed to be failing and why
> would I want mysql stuff on PostgreSQL?). I then did a gmake install. All
> contribs seemed to install fine. I reran the restore on a clean DB and
> most of the errors went away, but I am still getting errors all related to
> system functions looking for '$libdir/admin'.
>
> Does anyone know what I could have missed here?

It looks like you built from source rather that using the FreeBSD ports
system. Assuming you have a fresh FreeBSD install one would do the
following to achieve your desired end goal.

1) cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql80-server
2) make && make install
3) pay attention to the notes at the end about tuning your kernel for
shared memory usage (if you plan on having lots of connections)
4) cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql-contrib
5) make && make install
6) /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh initdb
7) /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start

Now if your ports tree is out of date (or even if not) you may want to
do the following instead:

1) pkg_add -r postgresql80-server
2) pkg_add -r postgresql-contrib

Then continue with steps 6 and 7 above. You can verify the package
installation via pkg_info. Also, you may need to build (via ports) or
add (via pkg_add) postgresql80-client.

HTH

Sven