Problem with PostgreSQL

Question

I'm trying load pg_trgm module to PostgreSQL, but something going wrong:

$ psql -d simko_development -f /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql
SET
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:9: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:14: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:19: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:24: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:29: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:38: ERROR:  function similarity_op(text, text) does not exist
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:44: NOTICE:  type "gtrgm" is not yet defined
DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:44: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:49: ERROR:  type gtrgm does not exist
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:55: ERROR:  function gtrgm_in(cstring) does not exist
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:61: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:66: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:71: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:76: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:81: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:86: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:91: ERROR:  type gtrgm does not exist
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:105: ERROR:  operator does not exist: text % text
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:111: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:116: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:121: ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/pg_trgm": No such file or directory
psql:/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share/contrib/pg_trgm.sql:132: ERROR:  operator does not exist: text % text

• Mac OS X 10.6.6
• PostgreSQL 9.0.2 (insalled via Homebrew)

More info:

$ pg_config --sharedir
/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.2/share

Answer 1

Total reinstall of PostgreSQL was help me.

Answer 2

Can't help you with macos, but the same probblem often occurs on debian-linux installations. A solution there is very simple: required libraries are located in a separate package, named postgresql-contrib, which should be installed additionally to the main postgresql package.

Answer 3

I know this an old question, but i found it using Google, so others might end up here as well.

On my Mac OSX macports install, i had two folders with .so files for postgresql:

/opt/local/lib/postgresql90/

and

/usr/local/pgsql-9.0/lib/

It seems like my installation looked in /opt/local/lib/postgresql90/ and not in /usr/local/pgsql-9.0/lib/, so to install pg_trgm, i had to do the following:

sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/postgresql90/pg_trgm.so /usr/local/pgsql-9.0/lib/

This should work with any .so file which is not in the right place.