Re: plpgsql function error after alter table add - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Hiroshi Inoue
Subject Re: plpgsql function error after alter table add
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Msg-id 3A36C0F2.A52DB121@tpf.co.jp
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In response to plpgsql function error after alter table add  ("Tim Dunnington" <timbert@timshouse.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> "Tim Dunnington" <timbert@timshouse.com> writes:
> > If you create a function with a table as the argument, and later alter that
> > table and add a new column, the function fails saying "incorrect number of
> > attributes for table _tablename_"  Dropping and readding the function does
> > not fix this problem.
>
> I think this is not so much a plpgsql bug as a side effect of the rather
> shoddy implementation of ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN.

Seems a plpgsql's simple bug.

> It doesn't go through
> and alter any actual tuples in the table, it just adds the column to the
> schema.

It seems a nice implementation.

Regards.
Hiroshi Inoue

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