Re: Database broken after using pgadmin 'backup' on OSX

On 29/06/17 21:06, Conor McNally wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone help with the following problem?
>
> Since upgrading to pgAdmin 4 v1.5 on macOS Sierra (v10.12.5), it seems
> my database is 'broken' every time I use the pgAdmin 'Backup' tool.
>
> Here's what happens:
> * macOS Sierra v10.12.5
> * postgres 9.6.2 locally installed with brew
> * pgAdmin 4 v1.5 installed directly from website
> * database is running fine
> * use the pgAdmin Tools / Backup... utility to take a full back-up
> * database is no longer working
>
> By 'no longer working' it means that the postrges libraries have been
> messed up and I get the following error when I try to connect via
> pyscopg2 (python v3.5.2_3, pyscopg2 v2.6.2):
>
> File
> "/Users/conor/virt_env/conor/lib/python3.5/site-packages/psycopg2/extras.py",
> line 288, in execute
> return super(NamedTupleCursor, self).execute(query, vars)
> psycopg2.InternalError: could not load library
> "/usr/local/lib/postgresql/plpgsql.so":
> dlopen(/usr/local/lib/postgresql/plpgsql.so, 10): Symbol not found:
> _DatumIsReadWriteExpandedObject
> Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/postgresql/plpgsql.so
> Expected in: /usr/local/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres
> in /usr/local/lib/postgresql/plpgsql.so
>
>
> I find the only way to fix the problem is to run "brew switch postgresql
> 9.6.2". I don't really know what that command does but the database
> connections are OK after I run it. Also, the database backup file has
> been created successfully as far as I can tell: I have not yet attempted
> to restore it. One other thing is I don't get a confirmation message in
> the pgAdmin console the way I used to.
>
> Can anybody help with the above problem? It has only started happening
> since I upgraded to pgAdmin 4 v1.5. Before that (with pgAdmin 4 v1.4)
> everything was fine.

I use neither Mac nor Python, but as pgAdmin 4 is Python-based I'd
hazard a wild guess that it's doing something to include paths (or
whatever the relevant term is).

Ray.

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