Thread: BUG #17057: Unexpected error: ERROR: unsupported target type: 0

The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference:      17057
Logged by:          Zlatoslav Petukhov
Email address:      zpetukhov@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 13.1
Operating system:   different linux versions
Description:

Hi to all,
I faced with an odd error while developing a stored procedure with
transaction control inside.
We use postgres v 13.1 on AWS RDS.
I maximally simplified the code to demonstrate the error.
The simplified code is here:
https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=postgres_13&fiddle=8cff4a98ac7fcefaaf9f38db68240cc1
It fails when executed on postgres versions 11 and 13.1.
No error on v12 (at least in the dbfiddle.uk instance). I didn't tested on
13.2 - I don't have such instance.
The code is copied below (not sure about dbfiddle.uk rules, how long the
fiddle will be available, etc).
So.... The stored procedure:
-----------------------------
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE public.testp(
    INOUT p1 integer
)
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
AS $$
begin
  commit;

  if (p1 <= 10) then
    p1 := 7;
  else
    p1 := 77;
  end if;
  
end;
$$;
-----------------------------
And the calling code:
-----------------------------
--select version();
do
$$
declare 
  p1 integer;
begin
  p1 := -1;
  call testp(p1);
  RAISE NOTICE '! %', p1;

  p1 := -2;
  call testp(p1);
  RAISE NOTICE '! %', p1;

  p1 := 11;
  call testp(p1);
  RAISE NOTICE '! %', p1;
 
end;
$$
-----------------------------

Additional info:
the code raises the error only when executed for the first time in a
session.
the second (and subsequent) execution gives no errors.

PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> I faced with an odd error while developing a stored procedure with
> transaction control inside.

Hi, this works fine for me on all branches back to v11.
I get

NOTICE:  ! 7
NOTICE:  ! 7
NOTICE:  ! 77

which looks like the correct behavior.  I suspect you're hitting
the bug fixed in commit 0ea25ed10, so you need to update to 13.2
or later.

            regards, tom lane