[GENERAL] Undocumented Postgres error: failed to fetch old tuple for AFTER trigger

2008-06-26 Thread Robert James
I'm running a very large series of commands - mainly DDL but some DML as
well - in a large transaction.  I get the following error, which doesn't
seem to be documented:

ERROR: failed to fetch old tuple for AFTER trigger
: COMMIT

There are no triggers that I'm aware of.  I've gotten this error when
running the transaction on two different instances of the database.  I also
did a VACUUM FULL, which didn't help.

Breaking down the commands into a series of about 7 smaller transactions
works fine.  Each transaction runs totally fine by itself.  But, when I run
them all in one giant transaction, I get errors.

I'm running Postgres 8.2.1 on Windows XP.  If anyone can help, I'd be very
greatful.


Re: [GENERAL] Undocumented Postgres error: failed to fetch old tuple for AFTER trigger

2008-06-26 Thread Lennin Caro
the table o tables have triggers?
try to use  COMMIT

--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Robert James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Robert James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [GENERAL] Undocumented Postgres error: failed to fetch old tuple for 
AFTER trigger
To: Postgres General pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 8:28 PM

I'm running a very large series of commands - mainly DDL but some DML as well - 
in a large transaction.  I get the following error, which doesn't seem to be 
documented:

ERROR:  failed to fetch old tuple for AFTER trigger

: COMMIT

There are no triggers that I'm aware of.  I've gotten this error when running 
the transaction on two different instances of the database.  I also did a 
VACUUM FULL, which didn't help.


Breaking down the commands into a series of about 7 smaller transactions works 
fine.  Each transaction runs totally fine by itself.  But, when I run them all 
in one giant transaction, I get errors.

I'm running Postgres 8.2.1 on Windows XP.  If anyone can help, I'd be very 
greatful.








  

Re: [GENERAL] Undocumented Postgres error: failed to fetch old tuple for AFTER trigger

2008-06-26 Thread Tom Lane
Robert James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 ERROR: failed to fetch old tuple for AFTER trigger

 I'm running Postgres 8.2.1 on Windows XP.

I seem to remember a bug with this symptom; so your first move ought to
be to update to 8.2.latest.  If you can still reproduce it afterwards,
please send a test case to pgsql-bugs.

regards, tom lane

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