libreadline error when running cap db:pull

23 Mar 2020 16:00

We use capistrano-db-tasks to pull data from our server.

Occasionally, we encounter the following error on Macs:

executing local: bunzip2 -f db/codeit_2020-03-23-161828.sql.bz2 &&  psql -c "SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pg_stat_activity.pid) FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE pg_stat_activity.da… dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.7.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/psql
  Reason: image not found
sh: line 1: 82361 Abort trap: 6           psql -c "SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pg_stat_activity.pid) FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE pg_stat_activity.datname = 'codeit_development' AND pid <> pg_backend_pid();"
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.7.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/psql
  Reason: image not found
sh: line 1: 82366 Abort trap: 6           psql -d codeit_development < db/codeit_2020-03-23-161828.sql
      removing db/codeit_2020-03-23-161828.sql
      Completed database import

I think this is caused by operating system upgrades, but I’m not exactly sure.

The quickest workaround that so far has worked is to symlink the missing file libreadline.x.dylib in /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/.

So, something like the ff:

$ cd /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/
$ ls
$ # look for libreadline.something.dylib
$ ln -s libreadline.something.dylib libreadline.7.dylib