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TypeError: Cannot read property '1' of null

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Trying to bootstrap my Node application, getting the following error, don’t know how to proceed:

TypeError: Cannot read property '1' of null
/home/vcap/app/node_modules/knex/lib/dialects/postgres/index.js:128
 at emitOne (events.js:95:20)
 at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/vcap/app/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:109:12)
 at emitOne (events.js:90:13)
 resolver(/^PostgreSQL (.*?)( |$)/.exec(resp.rows[0].version)[1]);
 ^
 at Socket.emit (events.js:182:7)
 at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:153:18)
 at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:111:10)
 at TCP.onread (net.js:534:20)
 at null.<anonymous> (/home/vcap/app/node_modules/pg/lib/client.js:163:19)
 at Query.handleReadyForQuery (/home/vcap/app/node_modules/pg/lib/query.js:89:10)
 at null.callback (/home/vcap/app/node_modules/knex/lib/dialects/postgres/index.js:128:69)
 at emit (events.js:182:7)
npm ERR! Linux 3.19.0-33-generic
npm ERR! argv "/home/vcap/app/vendor/node/bin/node" "/home/vcap/app/vendor/node/bin/npm" "start"

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:9 (1 by maintainers)

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thesunnycommented, Nov 3, 2022

The fix is to change client: 'pg' to client: 'cockroachdb' and it doesn’t feel like it should work because you haven’t installed a cockroachdb specific driver (just the pg one), but it does work.

I just tried it out and it worked.

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ThanhHuuTrancommented, Aug 5, 2020

I encounter this issue while using enterpriseDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com/ query “select versions()” return “EnterpriseDB 9.6.18.25 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36), 64-bit” therefore the regex "/^PostgreSQL (.*?)( |$)/.exec(resp.rows[0].version)" return null in this case