Re: fedora core 2 postgresql regression tests fail

John McBride wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been playing with postgresql at home, working through a book on
> general database installation and use. Mostly it is an oracle book, but
> much of the book is easily translated to Postgres. This is on a fedora
> core 2 linux box, kept fully yum updated.
>
> Here are the packages installed via yum:
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep postgres
> postgresql-libs-7.4.2-1
> postgresql-server-7.4.2-1
> postgresql-test-7.4.2-1
> postgresql-7.4.2-1
> postgresql-devel-7.4.2-1
>
> Then I enable plpgsql:
>
> $ droplang plpgsql template1
> $ createlang plpgsql template1
> $ createlang -l template1
> Procedural Languages
> Name | Trusted?
> ---------+----------
> plpgsql | yes
>
> As user postgres I try and run the tests:
>
> $ pwd
> /usr/lib/pgsql/test/regress
> $ time ./pg_regress.sh --schedule=parallel_schedule
> ....
> ====================================================
> 6 of 93 tests failed, 1 of these failures ignored.
> ====================================================
> ....
>
> $ grep -i FAIL ./regression.out
> test create_function_1 ... FAILED
> triggers ... FAILED
> plpgsql ... failed (ignored)
> copy2 ... FAILED
> rangefuncs ... FAILED
> test stats ... FAILED
>
> Here are some results from the diffs:
>
> $ grep ERROR regression.diffs
> ERROR: could not access file "nosuchfile": No such file or directory
> ! ERROR: Can't find function nosuchsymbol in file
> /usr/lib/pgsql/test/regress/regress.so
> ERROR: there is no built-in function named "nosuch"
> ERROR: could not access file "nosuchfile": No such file or directory
> ! ERROR: could not find function "nosuchsymbol" in file
> "/usr/lib/pgsql/test/regress/regress.so"
> ERROR: there is no built-in function named "nosuch"
> + ERROR: language "plpgsql" does not exist
> + ERROR: function trigger_func() does not exist
> + ERROR: function trigger_func() does not exist
> + ERROR: function trigger_func() does not exist
> + ERROR: function trigger_func() does not exist
> + ERROR: language "plpgsql" does not exist
> ....
>
> $ grep plpgsql regression.diffs | more
> + ERROR: language "plpgsql" does not exist
> *** ./expected/plpgsql.out Wed Sep 24 23:58:06 2003
> --- ./results/plpgsql.out Mon Sep 27 21:11:32 2004
> ' language 'plpgsql';
> + ERROR: language "plpgsql" does not exist
> ....
>
> $ grep HINT regression.diffs
> + HINT: You need to use "createlang" to load the language into the
> database.
> ....
>
> So I guess I am confused. I thought I added the required language
> (plpgsql) properly. Sorry if this is something obvious, I have googled
> several times and have not found much help for this.
>
> Perhaps I should be building from source or using the RedHat "rhdb" iso?
>
> Thanks for any hints,
> John
>
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might or might not help for your test, there is a 7.4.5 version for
fedora core 2.

you can find it on any of the mirrors, for example:
ftp://ftp7.de.postgresql.org/pub/ftp.postgresql.org/binary/v7.4.5/rpms/fedora/fedora-core-2