Re: plpgsql function error after alter table add

Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>

From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tim Dunnington <timbert@timshouse.com>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-12-13T00:21:06Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> "Tim Dunnington" <timbert@timshouse.com> writes:
> > If you create a function with a table as the argument, and later alter that
> > table and add a new column, the function fails saying "incorrect number of
> > attributes for table _tablename_"  Dropping and readding the function does
> > not fix this problem.
> 
> I think this is not so much a plpgsql bug as a side effect of the rather
> shoddy implementation of ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN. 

Seems a plpgsql's simple bug.

> It doesn't go through
> and alter any actual tuples in the table, it just adds the column to the
> schema.

It seems a nice implementation.

Regards.
Hiroshi Inoue