Re: pg 8.0.1-r3 killls pgadmin3 and phppgadmin

PFC <lists(at)boutiquenumerique(dot)com> writes:
> I've traced it to the following query to get information about the
> database :

> SELECT pdb.datname AS datname, pu.usename AS datowner,
> pg_encoding_to_char(encoding) AS datencoding,
> (SELECT description FROM pg_description pd WHERE pdb.oid=pd.objoid) AS
> datcomment,
> (SELECT spcname FROM pg_catalog.pg_tablespace pt WHERE
> pt.oid=pdb.dattablespace) AS tablespace
> FROM pg_database pdb, pg_user pu
> WHERE pdb.datdba = pu.usesysid AND NOT pdb.datistemplate
> ORDER BY pdb.datname;

Works for me.

> This query looks right to me and pg 8.0.0 does it fine, while 8.0.1-r3
> says :
> Error : Unexpected right parenthesis.

Hmm; the only occurrence of that string in the sources is in
nodes/read.c, which AFAIK would never be invoked for a query entered
straight from the client. What could trigger it would be trying to
read a rule that is misformatted for some reason. Maybe you have
a damaged pg_user view definition --- does "select * from pg_user"
fail the same way?

regards, tom lane