Re: Errors when restoring backup created by pg_dumpall

On 11/30/24 19:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
>> Ok, so the error is not emanating from your code but rather the body of the
>> ll_to_earth function defined in the earthdistance extension.
> Yeah.  That is
>
> CREATE FUNCTION ll_to_earth(float8, float8)
> RETURNS earth
> LANGUAGE SQL
> IMMUTABLE STRICT
> PARALLEL SAFE
> AS 'SELECT cube(cube(cube(earth()*cos(radians($1))*cos(radians($2))),earth()*cos(radians($1))*sin(radians($2))),earth()*sin(radians($1)))::earth';
>
> which is problematic: the function calls are not schema-qualified and
> there's not a really easy way to fix that.  There's work afoot to fix
> that [1], but it's not committed yet let alone in any shipping
> version.  Nonetheless, your best bet for fixing this might be
> to install the earthdistance 1.2 files from the latest patchset in
> that thread.
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3395418.1618352794@sss.pgh.pa.us

I've applied the following patch to postgres:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/attachment/122092/0002-earthdistance-sql-functions.patch

I'm still getting this error:

psql:all.sql:4102: ERROR:  type "earth" does not exist
LINE 1: ...ians($1))*sin(radians($2))),earth()*sin(radians($1)))::earth