Get Error: You must install at least one postgresql-client-<version> package when deploy to heroku

Question

sdilshod@sdilshod-Lenovo-B590:~/webapp/saturn$ heroku run rake db:migrate
Running `rake db:migrate` attached to terminal... up, run.6194
DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in    vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0.  Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app  as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release  notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2- 0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/Rakefile:7)
DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in  vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0.   Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app   as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release   notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-  0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/Rakefile:7)
 Error: You must install at least one postgresql-client-<version> package.
 rake aborted!
 Error dumping database
 /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-   3.2.12/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:415:in `block (3 levels)   in <top (required)>'
 /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord- 3.2.12/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:188:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.12/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:182:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
Tasks: TOP => db:structure:dump
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

heroku pg:psql works fine, but when i do migrate rake db:migrate it get error that needs to install pg client. Where i need to install pg client? Any help

Solution 1

On a Debian based system the PostreSQL client programs are provided by postgresql-client-common as symbolic links to /usr/share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper.

If you install that package and attempt to use any of the PostgreSQL client programs like psql, pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore, the pg_wrapper without having the version specific binary package installed, like postgresql-client-9.1 it will emit this error:

You must install at least one postgresql-client-< version > package

The easiest way to fix this is to install the postgresql-client metapackage. It always depends on the currently supported database client package for PostgreSQL on Debian based systems and it depends on postgresql-client-common

sudo apt-get install postgresql-client

Solution 2

Update March 30th, 2020

Agree with the chosen answer, but I found to install postgresql-client-12 on a Ubuntu 18 slightly more involved.

sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install vim bash-completion wget
sudo apt -y upgrade
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`-pgdg main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install postgresql-client-12

See this reference for details.

Comments

[dilshod]

Thanks for response, jla! It seems bug heroku and i found stackoverflow.com/questions/17300341/… to solve

[jla]

You're welcome. I found this when searching for the "at least one" error message from using psql on the command line and not using heroku. After I found the answer I wanted to leave a Debian specific fix that gives a working pg_dump and psql for the Debian specific error as an alternate to the suggested heroku fix of ignoring the error.

[s2t2]

running sudo apt-get install postgresql-client via heroku run bash doesn't work? It returns bash: sudo: command not found. What am I missing here?

[Holger Brandl]

With Ubuntu 20.04 just the last line of the instructions did the trick.

[Venryx]

For PostgreSQL 13, see their (almost identical) guide here: computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-postgresql-13-on-ubuntu