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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Yah that part I read. I was just thinking that maybe during the ALTER EXTENSION process it ignores whatever search_path the user has, but might not ignore the session search_path.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If you do show search_path, it’s what the search_path is for YOU, but not necessarily what will be in effect when ALTER EXTENSION runs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>So that is why I was asking you to reset it for the session.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>That said I forget if the search_path is also reset during ALTER EXTENSION so that may not work anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> kaido vaikla <kaido.vaikla@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 24, 2024 5:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us><br><b>Cc:</b> postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Update topology 3.3.3 to 3.3.6 fails<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Regina,<br>in my first post you see:<br><br>teglms=# show search_path ;<br> search_path<br>-------------------<br> postgis, topology<br>(1 row)<br><br><br>br<br>Kaido<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 at 03:06, Regina Obe <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us">lr@pcorp.us</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I vaguely recall running into this issue when doing CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology; But haven’t seen the issue in recent versions of postgis (e.g. 3.4 and above) and can’t remember how I worked around it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Is your search_path set just for your user setting or for the database?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Have you tried resetting the search path.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Something like:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>set search_path=postgis, topology;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>alter extension postgis_topology update to "3.3.6";</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Are you able to use a newer PostGIS say 3.3.7 (3.3.8 came out yesterday so might not be available yet in most distros), </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> kaido vaikla <<a href="mailto:kaido.vaikla@gmail.com" target="_blank">kaido.vaikla@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 23, 2024 6:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Update topology 3.3.3 to 3.3.6 fails</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Hi, <br>Need some help.<br><br>teglms=# \dx post*<br> List of installed extensions<br> Name | Version | Schema | Description<br>------------------+---------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------<br> postgis | 3.3.6 | postgis | PostGIS geometry and geography spatial types and functions<br> postgis_raster | 3.3.6 | postgis | PostGIS raster types and functions<br> postgis_topology | 3.3.3 | topology | PostGIS topology spatial types and functions<br>(3 rows)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>teglms=# alter extension postgis_topology update to "3.3.6";<br>ERROR: type "geometry" does not exist<br>teglms=# \dT+ geometry<br> List of data types<br> Schema | Name | Internal name | Size | Elements | Owner | Access privileges | Description<br>---------+----------+---------------+------+----------+------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> postgis | geometry | geometry | var | | eglmsadmin | | postgis type: The type representing spatial features with planar coordinate systems.<br>(1 row)<br><br>teglms=# select user;<br> user<br>------------<br> eglmsadmin<br>(1 row)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>teglms=# show search_path ;<br> search_path<br>-------------------<br> postgis, topology<br>(1 row)<br><br>Why update can't find a type geometry?<br><br>br<br>Kaido</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>