Re: PQgetvalue: ERROR! tuple number 0 is out of range 0..-1

Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>

From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>
Cc: Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-07T12:39:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:36:48AM -0400, mlw wrote:
> I get this a lot and it keeps me from backing up the database.
> 
> This database is still 7.0.3. Anyone knows what cases it and how to correct
> it, because I can't dump to a new database.

is this coming from one of your applications?
"PQgetvalue: ERROR! tuple number 0 is out of range 0..-1"

if so, the it is possible that the application is doing a select, which
returns 0 rows.

and your application is attempting to access the value of a non-existant row.

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