On 9/27/20 10:30 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 9/27/20 2:00 AM, Paul Förster wrote:
>> Hi Adrian,
>>
>>> On 27. Sep, 2020, at 00:09, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Could it be that at some point in these instances history plpython*
>>> where installed as CREATE LANGUAGE and you are dealing with the
>>> vestiges of that?
>>
>> I do know for sure that that never happened because the database
>> clusters with this effect are my personal test databases and I never
>> used Python. I did some tests with plperl and plperlu, though, but
>> never python, because I don't "speak" python.
>>
>> What is possible is, those databases are clones of a Patroni cluster
>> database (primary) I used to experiment with. I just copied them to
>> new PGDATAs back then and changed PGPORT of course. I know, I could
>> have done initdb and pg_dumpall but just copying the whole database
>> cluster was the fast way to go, even more so as the PostgreSQL
>> software was exactly the same. Just PGDATA and PGPORT changed for the
>> clone. From what I know this is a perfectly legal way to do it as long
>> as the source database cluster is properly shut down during the copy
>> process.
>>
>> Maybe Patroni did it then implicitly? I'm not sure how Patroni works
>> internally but I know that it is written in Python. Maybe it does
>> install something in the database which I don't know and can't find? I
>> tried searching for anything owned by "replicator" but can't find
>> anything.
>>
>>> Are you able to go back and reconstruct them and then do \dL
>>> (languages) and \dx (extensions)?
>>
>> The machine in question is my personal test box at home. I don't do
>> regular backups there. If I break something I just reinstall it. So
>> going back into the past with backups is not possible for me. The only
>> thing that I kept running a long time now is the Patroni cluster
>> because I have some data stored in it. But this is the only "history"
>> there is. However, \dx and \dL do not show any Python extension or
>> language on the Patroni cluster too, which is still 12.4.
>
> Does:
>
> SELECT
> lanname, proname, probin
> FROM
> pg_proc
> JOIN
> pg_language
> ON
> pg_language.oid = pg_proc.prolang
> WHERE
> pg_language.lanname='plpythonu'
> AND
> probin IS NOT NULL;
>
> show anything? This would need to be repeated for each cluster in database.
Really? Make that for each database in cluster!
>
>>
>> Still, thanks for helping.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>
>
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Adrian Klaver
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