Thread: FATAL: no such database
For some reason I cannot create a database. I use Sequel, Postico, and psql, and all three won’t create a database. Thefirst two write the syntax for me, and they too return errors. Here is an example in psql: rich=# CREATE DATABASE alpha; CREATE DATABASE rich=# \c alpha; FATAL: no such database: alpha Previous connection kept rich=# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges --------------+-------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------------- alpha | rich | UTF8 | C | C | postgres | rich | UTF8 | C | C | rich | rich | UTF8 | C | C | template0 | rich | UTF8 | C | C | =c/rich + | | | | | rich=CTc/rich template1 | rich | UTF8 | C | C | =c/rich + | | | | | rich=CTc/rich (5 rows) rich=# DROP DATABASE alpha; DROP DATABASE rich=# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges --------------+-------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------------- postgres | rich | UTF8 | C | C | rich | rich | UTF8 | C | C | template0 | rich | UTF8 | C | C | =c/rich + | | | | | rich=CTc/rich template1 | rich | UTF8 | C | C | =c/rich + | | | | | rich=CTc/rich (4 rows) rich=# CREATE DATABASE alpha; CREATE DATABASE rich=# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges --------------+-------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------------- alpha | rich | UTF8 | C | C | postgres | rich | UTF8 | C | C | rich | rich | UTF8 | C | C | template0 | rich | UTF8 | C | C | =c/rich + | | | | | rich=CTc/rich template1 | rich | UTF8 | C | C | =c/rich + | | | | | rich=CTc/rich (5 rows) rich=# \c alpha; FATAL: no such database: alpha Previous connection kept rich=# I have reinstalled PostgreSQL 12 both through homebrew as well as using the Postgres.app on MacOS. Both have the same issue. Anybody have any insight into what I should try? Thanks for your time. Cheers, Bee
BeeRich Lists <bee.lists@gmail.com> writes: > For some reason I cannot create a database. I use Sequel, Postico, and psql, and all three won’t create a database. Thefirst two write the syntax for me, and they too return errors. Here is an example in psql: > rich=# CREATE DATABASE alpha; > CREATE DATABASE > rich=# \c alpha; > FATAL: no such database: alpha > Previous connection kept Well, that's just odd. Do you have any nondefault extensions loaded into the database? I notice that the normal message for a missing database looks different: alpha=# \c alpha2 FATAL: database "alpha2" does not exist Previous connection kept and in fact the string "no such database" appears nowhere in the core Postgres code. So I'm not sure what's throwing that error, but I guess it must be some add-on code. BTW, the semicolon is superfluous, although I suspect that removing it won't change anything. regards, tom lane
[ please keep the list cc'd ] BeeRich Lists <bee.lists@gmail.com> writes: >> On Feb 21, 2022, at 3:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Well, that's just odd. Do you have any nondefault extensions loaded into >> the database? > I have installed the following (what I remember, just a handful). I’m unclear which ones : > cube | 1.4 | public | data type for multidimensional cubes > earthdistance | 1.1 | public | calculate great-circle distances on the surface of the Earth > hstore | 1.6 | public | data type for storing sets of (key, value) pairs > pg_trgm | 1.4 | public | text similarity measurement and index searching based on trigrams > plpgsql | 1.0 | pg_catalog | PL/pgSQL procedural language > uuid-ossp | 1.1 | public | generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) None of those contain that string, either. In any case, a generic extension wouldn't cause this problem, it'd have to be something that adds code to session start. I'm pretty sure that could only be modules that are listed in shared_preload_libraries or session_preload_libraries; have you got entries in either one? [ thinks for a bit... ] Another possibility perhaps is that you've got something in front of the server, like a connection pooler, and it's not coping. regards, tom lane
On Feb 21, 2022, at 7:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > [ please keep the list cc'd ] > > BeeRich Lists <bee.lists@gmail.com> writes: >>> On Feb 21, 2022, at 3:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Well, that's just odd. Do you have any nondefault extensions loaded into >>> the database? > >> I have installed the following (what I remember, just a handful). I’m unclear which ones : > >> cube | 1.4 | public | data type for multidimensional cubes >> earthdistance | 1.1 | public | calculate great-circle distances on the surface of the Earth >> hstore | 1.6 | public | data type for storing sets of (key, value) pairs >> pg_trgm | 1.4 | public | text similarity measurement and index searching based on trigrams >> plpgsql | 1.0 | pg_catalog | PL/pgSQL procedural language >> uuid-ossp | 1.1 | public | generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) > > None of those contain that string, either. > > In any case, a generic extension wouldn't cause this problem, > it'd have to be something that adds code to session start. > I'm pretty sure that could only be modules that are listed > in shared_preload_libraries or session_preload_libraries; > have you got entries in either one? > > [ thinks for a bit... ] Another possibility perhaps is that > you've got something in front of the server, like a connection > pooler, and it's not coping. Oops, sorry about that. Yes, just tested my pgbouncer (a pooler). That was it. Tested both ports and pgbouncer didn’t respond accordingly. Thank you! Cheers, Bee