Thread: PLPerl - Undefined symbol "MemoryContextSwitchTo"
Due to database corruption, I had to rebuild a database. Originally we installed PGSQL 7.4 and over the years bumped it up to 8.0. Now I would like to use 8.4. I'm trying to apply the plperl language to a 8.4.0_1 SQL_ASCII database and I keep getting this error message: orion-root@/home/postgres: createlang plperl erp createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: could not load library "/usr/local/lib/postgresql/plperl.so": dlopen (/usr/local/lib/postgresql/plperl.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/postgresql/plperl.so: Undefined symbol "MemoryContextSwitchTo" I checked to see if p5-postgresql-plperl was installed and it wasn't. orion-root@/usr/ports: portversion -v | grep p5-postgresql-plperl orion-root@/usr/ports: I noticed this: orion-root@/usr/ports: make search name=postgresql-plperl Port: postgresql-plperl-7.4.25_1 Path: /usr/ports/databases/p5-postgresql-plperl Info: Write SQL functions for PostgreSQL using Perl5 Maint: girgen@FreeBSD.org B-deps: gettext-0.17_1 gmake-3.81_3 libiconv-1.13.1 perl-5.8.9_3 R-deps: gettext-0.17_1 libiconv-1.13.1 perl-5.8.9_3 postgresql-client-7.4.25 postgresql-server-7.4.25 WWW: http://www.postgresql.org/ I find this surprising that the plperl module depends on an older version of PGSQL! Perl 5.8.9 is also depended on. I'm running Perl 5.10.1. orion-root@/home/postgres: uname -a FreeBSD orion.dawnsign.com 7.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 #3: Fri Feb 27 14:11:28 PST 2009 root@orion.dawnsign.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ORION-SMP i386 Does this mean I have to revert back to the older version of PGSQL as well as an older version of Perl in order to install plperl language support? ~Doug
Doug Sampson <dougs@dawnsign.com> writes:
> orion-root@/usr/ports: make search name=postgresql-plperl
> Port: postgresql-plperl-7.4.25_1
It would appear that you forgot to update plperl to 8.4 along with
the core postgres package ... the error message is not tremendously
informative but it seems consistent with the idea of trying to load
a 7.4-vintage plperl.so into a modern backend.
regards, tom lane
> Doug Sampson <dougs@dawnsign.com> writes:
> > orion-root@/usr/ports: make search name=postgresql-plperl
> > Port: postgresql-plperl-7.4.25_1
>
> It would appear that you forgot to update plperl to 8.4 along with
> the core postgres package ... the error message is not tremendously
> informative but it seems consistent with the idea of trying to load
> a 7.4-vintage plperl.so into a modern backend.
>
I'm no PGSQL expert. Neither am I a FreeBSD expert.
How does one build plperl support into a FreeBSD port of postgresql-server
8.4? Here's what 'make config' shows:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Options for postgresql-server 8.4.0_1
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+----------------------------------------------------------------+ |
| |[X] NLS Use internationalized messages
| |
| |[X] PAM Build with PAM support (server
only) | |
| |[ ] LDAP Build with LDAP authentication
support | |
| |[ ] MIT_KRB5 Build with MIT's kerberos
support | |
| |[ ] HEIMDAL_KRB5 Builds with Heimdal kerberos
support | |
| |[X] OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS Builds with compiler
optimizations (-O3) | |
| |[X] XML Build with XML data type
(server) | |
| |[X] TZDATA Use internal timezone database
(server) | |
| |[ ] DEBUG Builds with debugging symbols
| |
| |[ ] INTDATE Builds with 64-bit date/time
type (server)| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
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| |
+-+----------------------------------------------------------------+-+
| [ OK ] Cancel
|
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Or am I going about this the wrong way? Should I install the
p5-postgresql-plperl port even though it states that this ports depends on
or are depended by postgresql 7.4 server/client and perl 5.8.9? Will the
p5-postgresql-plperl work with version 8.4.0_1 of PGSQL and Perl 5.10.1?
~Doug
> > Doug Sampson <dougs@dawnsign.com> writes: > > > orion-root@/usr/ports: make search name=postgresql-plperl > > > Port: postgresql-plperl-7.4.25_1 > > > > It would appear that you forgot to update plperl to 8.4 along with > > the core postgres package ... the error message is not tremendously > > informative but it seems consistent with the idea of trying to load > > a 7.4-vintage plperl.so into a modern backend. > > > > I'm no PGSQL expert. Neither am I a FreeBSD expert. > > How does one build plperl support into a FreeBSD port of > postgresql-server [...] > > Or am I going about this the wrong way? Should I install the > p5-postgresql-plperl port even though it states that this > ports depends on > or are depended by postgresql 7.4 server/client and perl > 5.8.9? Will the > p5-postgresql-plperl work with version 8.4.0_1 of PGSQL and > Perl 5.10.1? > > ~Doug > I went ahead and installed the p5-postgresql-plperl port and it installed cleanly. The 'createlang plperl erp' command went through fine. The installation recognized correctly the current versions of both PGSQL and Perl and used them. I am puzzled though as to why it wasn't installed previously for the older version of PGSQL which apparently had PLPerl support! Thanks for the assistance! ~Doug