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Enabling hstore for new postgresql 9.1 and rails 3 install on ubuntu 12.04
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:setup
# produces the error below.....hmmm.....it's a no-worky
psql:/yourprojectpath/yourproject/db/structure.sql:29: ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/share/postgresql/9.1/extension/hstore.control": No such file or directory
# hstore postgresql extension needs to be installed, so....
sudo apt-get install postgresql-contrib
# now your extension should be available to enable so log in with psql
psql -d yourproject_production -U yourdbuser -W
# in the psql shell
CREATE EXTENSION hstore;
\q
# now you're golden, may need to clean up and re-run
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:drop
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:setup
@giedriusr
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Everything worked. thanks

@kirantpatil
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@rtdp
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rtdp commented Apr 15, 2013

worked for me too!

@fabrizioq
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@giedriusr I'm having the same permissions problem as you had. Could you tell me how you could get around them? Thanks in advance!

@tokhi
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tokhi commented May 23, 2013

I also had permission issue, I just log in to my DB via psql and then executed the below command:

CREATE EXTENSION hstore;

problem solved.^^

@waterlink
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Like a charm.. :)

@lcezermf
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works fine for me PG 9.1 + Ubuntu 12.10, thanks!

@neilmarion
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What I did was just

postgres# ALTER ROLE <user_name> SUPERUSER;

And that's it! Run migration again.

@drob
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drob commented Aug 21, 2013

Instead of opening up a psql shell, you can just run psql -c "CREATE EXTENSION hstore"

That lets you script this whole shebang.

@harryworld
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discourse project will need this

@nicolasgarnil
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Thanks

@scifisamurai
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I had the same permission issue on postgresql 9.4 on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Doing the following worked:

sudo su postgres -c "psql db_name -c 'CREATE EXTENSION hstore;'"
I got this from: dokku-alt/dokku-alt#66

@zinwalin
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@waterlink funny:)

@avdept
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avdept commented Feb 26, 2016

@scifisamurai, thanks, that helped me.

@bogdan8
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bogdan8 commented Sep 10, 2016

thanks

@alexventuraio
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alexventuraio commented Jan 24, 2018

I'm using Rails 5.0.2 and Postgres 9.5 on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS and what worked for me are the next two options:

First one:

- Install the extension with:
    sudo apt-get install postgresql-contrib
- Enable the extension in the corresponding Data Base:
    sudo su postgres -c "psql my_db_production -c 'CREATE EXTENSION hstore;'"

Second one:

- Install the extension with:
    sudo apt-get install postgresql-contrib
- Login as super user in Postgres
    sudo su - postgres
- Enter to your Data Base console:
    psql -d my_db_production -W
- In the psql shell run:
    CREATE EXTENSION hstore;
- Exit
    \q 

Now migrations run with out any error!
I hope it could be useful!

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