Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nMJS0-00029x-96 for pgsql-novice@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:54:44 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nMJRy-0007JC-E8 for pgsql-novice@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:54:42 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nMJRy-0007J3-5Y for pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:54:42 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nMJRv-0004iZ-L1 for pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:54:41 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 21M0saJ1604609; Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:54:36 -0500 From: Tom Lane To: BeeRich Lists cc: pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: FATAL: no such database In-reply-to: <710F9E09-25AF-49A6-AF2A-96FC74ADE7D8@gmail.com> References: <582711.1645476238@sss.pgh.pa.us> <710F9E09-25AF-49A6-AF2A-96FC74ADE7D8@gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to BeeRich Lists message dated "Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:36:09 -0500" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-ID: <604607.1645491276.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:54:36 -0500 Message-ID: <604608.1645491276@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk [ please keep the list cc'd ] BeeRich Lists writes: >> On Feb 21, 2022, at 3:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Well, that's just odd. Do you have any nondefault extensions loaded in= to >> the database? > I have installed the following (what I remember, just a handful). I=E2=80= =99m unclear which ones : > cube | 1.4 | public | data type for multidimensional c= ubes > earthdistance | 1.1 | public | calculate great-circle distances= on the surface of the Earth > hstore | 1.6 | public | data type for storing sets of (k= ey, value) pairs > pg_trgm | 1.4 | public | text similarity measurement and = index searching based on trigrams > plpgsql | 1.0 | pg_catalog | PL/pgSQL procedural language > uuid-ossp | 1.1 | public | generate universally unique iden= tifiers (UUIDs) None of those contain that string, either. In any case, a generic extension wouldn't cause this problem, it'd have to be something that adds code to session start. I'm pretty sure that could only be modules that are listed in shared_preload_libraries or session_preload_libraries; have you got entries in either one? [ thinks for a bit... ] Another possibility perhaps is that you've got something in front of the server, like a connection pooler, and it's not coping. regards, tom lane