Re: Issue with CREATE EXTENSION tablefuncKreiter

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> We have gotten a report from a user who is having issues with CREATE
> EXTENSION tablefunc.  I figured I would ask for additional insight and
> assistance at this point.
>
> When the user tries to run CREATE EXTENSION tablefunc; the following occurs:
>
> -bash-4.2$ dropdb ext_test
> -bash-4.2$ createdb ext_test
> -bash-4.2$ psql ext_test
> psql (9.1.2)
> Type "help" for help.
>
> ext_test=# select version();
>                                                    version
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  PostgreSQL 9.1.2 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC)
> 4.6.2 20111027 (Red Hat 4.6.2-1), 64-bit
> (1 row)
>
> ext_test=# CREATE EXTENSION tablefunc;
> ERROR:  type "tablefunc_crosstab_2" already exists
>
> This lead me to conclude that we needed to CREATE EXTENSION FROM UNPACKAGED
> thinking this might be an upgrade issue.  However no luck.
>
> ext_test=# CREATE EXTENSION tablefunc FROM unpackaged;
> ERROR:  function normal_rand(integer, double precision, double
> precision) does not exist
>
>
> What should be tried next?

by any chance did you create the extension in the template1 database?

merlin