Hi! I am running the latest version of discourse on a k8s cluster and upon startup and I keep getting this error: ERROR: relation "translation_overrides" does not exist at character 454 STATEMENT: SELECT a.attname, format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod), pg_get_expr(d.adbin, d.adrelid), a.attnotnull, a.atttypid, a.atttypmod, c.collname, col_description(a.attrelid, a.attnum) AS comment FROM pg_attribute a LEFT JOIN pg_attrdef d ON a.attrelid = d.adrelid AND a.attnum = d.adnum LEFT JOIN pg_type t ON a.atttypid = t.oid LEFT JOIN pg_collation c ON a.attcollation = c.oid AND a.attcollation <> t.typcollation WHERE a.attrelid = '"translation_overrides"'::regclass AND a.attnum > 0 AND NOT a.attisdropped ORDER BY a.attnum I am guessing it has something to do with the initial setup and db migration, but I am wondering if anyone here might know why exactly this keeps happening. Local setup is run with minikube and error logs are pulled from pgsql pod. Discourse image used → bitnami/discourse:latest (https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-discourse) Postgres image → postgres:11.9 Thank you and cheers!

[image] mobiusdickus: Discourse image used → bitnami/discourse:latest In this case, I think you should ask it for them, you probably won’t find a solution here, given that you are using an unsupported install. The place to create an issue is probably: https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-discourse/issues Or you can change your install to an official install (although I don’t know if you can run the official install in a k8s cluster).

Thank you for the help, much appreciated :slight_smile:

Hi all, we have been investigating this issue in Bitnami setups and we traced it back to the Discourse source code, as we could also reproduce it in the vanilla Discourse launcher using the official standalone.yml template: $ ./launcher rebuild app ... I, [2021-05-27T10:53:27.612150 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake plugin:pull_compatible_all' I, [2021-05-27T10:53:30.072954 #1] INFO -- : docker_manager is already at latest compatible version I, [2021-05-27T10:53:30.073194 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' 2021-05-27 10:53:32.977 UTC [4354] discourse@discourse ERROR: relation "translation_overrides" does not exist at character 454 2021-05-27 10:53:32.977 UTC [4354] discourse@discourse STATEMENT: SELECT a.attname, format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod), pg_get_expr(d.adbin, d.adrelid), a.attnotnull, a.atttypid, a.atttypmod, c.collname, col_description(a.attrelid, a.attnum) AS comment FROM pg_attribute a LEFT JOIN pg_attrdef d ON a.attrelid = d.adrelid AND a.attnum = d.adnum LEFT JOIN pg_type t ON a.atttypid = t.oid LEFT JOIN pg_collation c ON a.attcollation = c.oid AND a.attcollation <> t.typcollation WHERE a.attrelid = '"translation_overrides"'::regclass AND a.attnum > 0 AND NOT a.attisdropped ORDER BY a.attnum Warning: no type cast defined for type "name" with oid 19. Please cast this type explicitly to TEXT to be safe for future changes. > Seeding theme and color schemes I, [2021-05-27T10:53:49.976589 #1] INFO -- : == 20000225050318 AddSchemaMigrationDetails: migrating ======================== ...

Just to note, I got this today on a fresh (ARM) install, as a standard install, but although it says it’s an ERROR it doesn’t seem to have stopped the installation. I, [2025-02-24T17:48:39.792821 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' 2025-02-24 17:48:43.887 UTC [389] discourse@discourse ERROR: relation "translation_overrides" does not exist at character 523 2025-02-24 17:48:43.887 UTC [389] discourse@discourse STATEMENT: SELECT a.attname, format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod), pg_get_expr(d.adbin, d.adrelid), a.attnotnull, a.atttypid, a.atttypmod, c.collname, col_description(a.attrelid, a.attnum) AS comment, attidentity AS identity, attgenerated as attgenerated FROM pg_attribute a LEFT JOIN pg_attrdef d ON a.attrelid = d.adrelid AND a.attnum = d.adnum LEFT JOIN pg_type t ON a.atttypid = t.oid LEFT JOIN pg_collation c ON a.attcollation = c.oid AND a.attcollation <> t.typcollation WHERE a.attrelid = '"translation_overrides"'::regclass AND a.attnum > 0 AND NOT a.attisdropped ORDER BY a.attnum > Seeding theme and color schemes I, [2025-02-24T17:49:11.765841 #1] INFO -- : == 20000225050318 AddSchemaMigrationDetails: migrating ========================

Migration error on fresh startup running in k8s cluster

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purist33 (purist) April 14, 2025, 8:02pm 6

I dont know if it makes any sense. But I got a similar error when I was setting up discourse in k8s using the bitnami chart, and it went away for me when I made the postgres password longer. It might be a coincidence though.

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