"James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a FreeBSD-12.1p10 system running postgreSQL-11.8. This is a test > platform for Idempiere. When creating a new client in Idempiere I get this > error message: > ** org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: function uuid_generate_v4() does > not exist Hint: No function matches the given name and argument types. You > might need to add explicit type casts. Where: PL/pgSQL function generate_uuid() > line 3 at RETURN > This usually means that the uuid-ossp extension is not active in the database. > However, I previously installed this and psql shows that it is present: The two likely possibilities are that Idempiere isn't connecting to the same database as you are doing manually, or that it is using a search_path setting that doesn't include the "public" schema. I think you could also get this if the "public" schema is not readable by Idempiere's userid, but that doesn't seem terribly likely. regards, tom lane