Re: migrating to 9.2 created blank dbs

It has been suggested that I am misinterpreting the verbose output, which is very possible. Is the problem then with my
backupscript that works fine in 8.1 but needs a tweak to ignore whatever is triggering the attempt to create a backup
called"|"?
 

It appears that only after databases with the extra stuff at the end is when a file is created called "|"

Databases (/l command):
manuals                 | postgres | LATIN1    | C       | C     | =CTc/postgres        +
                             |          |           |         |       |                       postgres=CT/postgres
 marctestdb          | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     |
 mattdb                  | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     |
 mydb                      | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     | =Tc/postgres         +
                                 |          |           |         |       |               postgres=CT/postgres
 nasfaa                  | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C       | C     |

Backup log:
Backup and Vacuum complete at 13:21:09-2015-05-01 for time slot 05-01-2015_13-21 on database: manuals 
Backup and Vacuum complete at 13:21:09-2015-05-01 for time slot 05-01-2015_13-21 on database: | 
Backup and Vacuum complete at 13:21:09-2015-05-01 for time slot 05-01-2015_13-21 on database: marctestdb 
Backup and Vacuum complete at 13:21:09-2015-05-01 for time slot 05-01-2015_13-21 on database: mattdb 
Backup and Vacuum complete at 13:21:10-2015-05-01 for time slot 05-01-2015_13-21 on database: mydb 
Backup and Vacuum complete at 13:21:10-2015-05-01 for time slot 05-01-2015_13-21 on database: | 
Backup and Vacuum complete at 13:21:10-2015-05-01 for time slot 05-01-2015_13-21 on database: nasfaa

Script:
#!/bin/bash
# Location of the backup logfile.
logfile="/var/lib/pgsql/backups/logs/pg_back.log"
# Location to place backups.
backup_dir="/var/lib/pgsql/backups"
touch $logfile
timeslot=`date +%m-%d-%Y_%H-%M`
databases=`psql -h localhost -U postgres -q -c "\l" | sed -n 4,/\eof/p | grep -v rows\) | awk {'print $1'}`

for i in $databases; do
   timeinfo=`date '+%T-%F'`
   echo "Backup and Vacuum complete at $timeinfo for time slot $timeslot on database: $i " >> $logfile
   /usr/bin/vacuumdb -z -h localhost -U postgres $i >/dev/null 2>&1
   /usr/bin/pg_dump $i -ch 127.0.0.1 -U postgres | gzip > "$backup_dir/postgresql-$i-$timeslot-database.gz"
Done

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Frost [mailto:jeff@pgexperts.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 9:41 AM
To: Marc Fromm
Cc: Tom Lane; Keith; Raghavendra; Keith Fiske; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] migrating to 9.2 created blank dbs

Any chance you’re just misinterpreting the new more verbose output of psql’s \l command?

Nowadays, it looks like this:

postgres=# \l
                                List of databases
     Name      |   Owner    | Encoding | Collate | Ctype |   Access privileges
---------------+------------+----------+---------+-------+--------------
---------------+------------+----------+---------+-------+---------
 postgres      | postgres   | UTF8     | C       | C     |
 template0     | postgres   | UTF8     | C       | C     | =c/postgres          +
               |            |          |         |       | postgres=CTc/postgres
 template1     | postgres   | UTF8     | C       | C     | =c/postgres          +
               |            |          |         |       | postgres=CTc/postgres
(4 rows)

But there are still only 3 databases being listed above.  

> On May 4, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Running the select statement gives me a list of all my databases. The only thing that looks suspicious are a few
databaseshave stuff like this in the datacl column " {postgres=CT/postgres,=T/postgres}". The number of databases with
thatis suspiciously equal to the number of blanks created.
 
> 
> Marc
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 9:07 AM
> To: Keith
> Cc: Marc Fromm; Raghavendra; Keith Fiske; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] migrating to 9.2 created blank dbs
> 
>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu> wrote:
>>> I setup a server running postgresql-server-9.2.10-2.el7_1.x86_64. 
>>> After restoring my databases form a system running
>>> postgresql-server-8.1.23-10.el5_10 (created with pg_dumpall), 
>>> several blank databases/entries were created.
> 
> FWIW, this seems to match a symptom we've heard of occasionally in which the source server's catalogs are corrupted.
Ifthe 8.1 server is still online it would be interesting to connect to it manually and see what you get from "select *
frompg_database”.