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Re: [BUGS] General Bug Report: adding column to table w/ index causes column not to be seen

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-05-17T16:11:20Z

I think we fixed this in 6.5 beta.  Can you try that one from our ftp
site?


> --------------------
> It seems that if a column is created in a table with an existant index,
> and an attempt is made to use that index, the backend doesn't
> see the new column.
> 
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> 
> Test Case:
> ----------
> The following SQL illustrates the problem:
> 
> ======================================
> drop table snafu;
> create table snafu ( a1 text, a2 text );
> insert into snafu values ( 'snark', 'fido' );
> create index snafu_i1 on snafu using hash ( a1 );
> alter table snafu add column a3 text;
> update snafu set a3 = 'snzay' where a1 = 'snark';
> =========================================
> 
> This results in
> 
> drop table snafu;
> DROP
> 
> create table snafu ( a1 text, a2 text );
> CREATE
> 
> insert into snafu values ( 'snark', 'fido' );
> INSERT 156996266 1
> 
> create index snafu_i1 on snafu using hash ( a1 );
> CREATE
> 
> alter table snafu add column a3 text;
> ADD
> 
> update snafu set a3 = 'snzay' where a1 = 'snark';
> ERROR:  Relation snafu does not have attribute a3
> 
> Removing the "create index ..." line causes the problem to
> go away.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Solution:
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> 
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> 
> 
> 


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