On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 02:32:36PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> writes: > >>>> I can cause the error at will on the existing table, > > That's good news, at least. > > 1. Please trigger it with "\set VERBOSITY verbose" enabled, so we can see > the exact source location --- there are a couple of instances of that > text.
ts=# begin; drop view umts_eric_ch_switch_view, eric_umts_rnc_utrancell_view, umts_eric_cell_integrity_view; ALTER TABLE eric_umts_rnc_utrancell_metrics ALTER COLUMN PMSUMPACKETLATENCY_000 TYPE BIGINT USING PMSUMPACKETLATENCY_000::BIGINT; BEGIN DROP VIEW ERROR: 42804: attribute 424 has wrong type DETAIL: Table has type smallint, but query expects integer. LOCATION: ExecEvalScalarVar, execQual.c:660 > 2. Even better would be a stack trace for the call to errfinish, > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Generating_a_stack_trace_of_a_PostgreSQL_backend #1 0x00000000006dd39f in exec_simple_query (query_string=0x1fc5fb0 "begin;") at postgres.c:932 dest = DestRemote oldcontext = 0x1f3b100 parsetree_list = 0x1fc69f0 save_log_statement_stats = 0 '\000' was_logged = 0 '\000' msec_str = "\360:\235\213\377\177\000\000`<\235\213\377\177\000\000\260_\374\001", '\000' <repeats 11 times> __func__ = "exec_simple_query" and then #1 0x00000000006dd39f in exec_simple_query ( query_string=0x1fc5fb0 "ALTER TABLE eric_umts_rnc_utrancell_metrics ALTER COLUMN PMSUMPACKETLATENCY_000 TYPE BIGINT USING PMSUMPACKETLATENCY_000::BIGINT;") at postgres.c:932 dest = DestRemote oldcontext = 0x1f3b100 parsetree_list = 0x1fc6fc8 save_log_statement_stats = 0 '\000' was_logged = 0 '\000' msec_str = "\360:\235\213\377\177\000\000`<\235\213\377\177\000\000\260_\374\001", '\000' <repeats 11 times> __func__ = "exec_simple_query" then #1 0x00000000005d0e30 in ExecEvalScalarVar (exprstate=<value optimized out>, econtext=<value optimized out>, isNull=<value optimized out>, isDone=<value optimized out>) at execQual.c:655 attnum = 424 __func__ = "ExecEvalScalarVar" > 3. It's pretty hard to see how you'd reach any of these places for an > ALTER COLUMN TYPE on a simple table. Has the table got rules, triggers, > default values? Could we see "\d+" output for it? triggers and defaults, yes. sect_id | integer | not null start_time | timestamp with time zone | not null site_id | integer | not null interval_seconds | smallint | not null utrancell | text | not null nedn | text | not null rnc_id | integer | not null device_id | integer | not null pmcelldowntimeauto | smallint | pmcelldowntimeman | smallint | pmchswitchattemptfachura | smallint | pmchswitchattempturafach | smallint | ... Triggers: eric_umts_rnc_utrancell_insert_trigger BEFORE INSERT ON eric_umts_rnc_utrancell_metrics FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE eric_umts_rnc_utrancell_insert_function() Number of child tables: 3 (Use \d+ to list them.) I'll send the rest of \d if you really want but: ts=# SELECT COUNT(1) FROM pg_attribute WHERE attrelid='eric_umts_rnc_utrancell_metrics'::regclass; count | 1116 Justin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers