Thanks both for your response. Here is a screen shot with the table definition and reproducible example:
mm=# \d signon
Table "public.signon"
Column | Type | Modifiers
---------+-----------------------+-----------
name | character varying(25) | not null
user_id | bigint | not null
passwd | character varying(30) | not null
Indexes: signon_pkey primary key btree (user_id),
signon_name_key unique btree (name)
mm=# insert into signon values ('dump',3434343,'wdp');
INSERT 256495 1
mm=# delete from signon where user_id='3434343';
ERROR: get_typdefault: failed to lookup type 0
mm=#
The version information is the following:
Welcome to psql 7.3.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
on cygwin with Window 2000.
Tom Lane wrote
>You'll need to provide a self-contained test case.
>We've seen bugs with similar symptoms associated with dropped columns, but AFAIK they are all fixed in 7.3.4.
Joe Conway wrote
>Please post the results of \d tablename, the definitions of
> any trigger functions (particularly any "on delete"
>triggers), and if possible a complete reproducible example.
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