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Help compiling duckdb and error loading postgres: `undefined symbol: _ZTIN6duckdb7CatalogE`

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cmake, cpp, postgresql
Domain
build-system, databases

Research direction

Start with the duckdb-postgres build instructions and the extension_config.cmake entry for postgres_scanner, then reproduce the issue using GEN=ninja EXTENSION_CONFIGS="extension_config.cmake" make. Compare the v1.3.2 DuckDB checkout and the referenced duckdb-postgres revision to determine what configuration or revision is required. Done means loading postgres_scanner without the undefined Catalog symbol.

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Description

Apologies if this is not the right place to ask for help.

When LOADing the postgres extension that I compiled myself, I am running into

Extension "/home/mzabani/duckdb/build/release/extension/postgres_scanner/postgres_scanner.duckdb_extension" could not be loaded: /home/mzabani/duckdb/build/release/extension/postgres_scanner/postgres_scanner.duckdb_extension: undefined symbol: _ZTIN6duckdb7CatalogE

I have duckdb cloned and checked out at the v1.3.2 tag, and duckdb-postgres cloned and checked out at c3024b5c8570695dc73422066fcd221ed64761de, which seemed like the best match since the duckdb git submodule is also at v1.3.2.

I then have the following extension_config.cmake file in the duckdb repo (last line might be the actual relevant one):

duckdb_extension_load(autocomplete)
duckdb_extension_load(core_functions)
duckdb_extension_load(httpfs SOURCE_DIR /home/mzabani/duck-read-cache-fs/duckdb-httpfs INCLUDE_DIR /home/mzabani/duck-read-cache-fs/duckdb-httpfs/extension/httpfs/include)
duckdb_extension_load(cache_httpfs SOURCE_DIR /home/mzabani/duck-read-cache-fs)
duckdb_extension_load(ducklake SOURCE_DIR /home/mzabani/ducklake)
duckdb_extension_load(icu)
duckdb_extension_load(json)
duckdb_extension_load(parquet)
duckdb_extension_load(postgres_scanner DONT_LINK SOURCE_DIR /home/mzabani/duckdb-postgres)

After that I ran GEN=ninja EXTENSION_CONFIGS="extension_config.cmake" make to compile.
Is this something obvious I'm missing from the build instructions?

Thanks in advance.

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