Re: What does this error message mean? - Mailing list pgsql-general
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Ken Tanzer <ken.tanzer@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi. I got an error message reported to me that I've never seen before, and
> I'm not quite sure what it means or what would cause it.> ERROR: type of parameter 70 (text) does not match that when preparing theI think this must mean that you changed the schema of table tbl_payment
> plan (unknown) CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function
> generate_payments(date,text,integer,integer) line 195 at assignment
during this session, and then re-ran the function. plpgsql isn't as good
as it could be about dealing with intra-session changes of composite
types. The reference to "parameter 70" seems a bit odd though, it doesn't
seem like you have anywhere near 70 variables in that function ...
(thinks about it for a bit) Actually it seems more likely that a change
in the rowtype of "payment" caused this, ie some change in the output
column set of that "final_query" query. Difficult to guess more than
that without more context.
regards, tom lane
Thanks Tom. If you really mean it that the schema must have changed during the session, that seems impossible (er, highly unlikely). The error was generated through a web app that doesn't know how to do any schema changing.
If there's a broader window, though, schema changes do seem plausible. The type of that comment field hasn't changed, but on Friday I did some dropping and recreating of both the generate_payments function and the views it draws upon. If the function was created before the view existed, would that account for this error? (Leaving aside parameter 70, of course). It is possible that this row was the first one generated by the function since the schema drops/creates on Friday. (It actually looks like it was 9 minutes after another row, but that's based on comparing server time to a screenshot of a client's desktop with their clock showing, so I wouldn't put too much faith in that.)
And if this error was from the Friday schema changes, would it have auto-corrected itself so it only happened the one time?
Cheers,
Ken
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