Re: Relation missing?

From: Bruce Hyatt <brucejhyatt(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: A B <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Relation missing?
Date: 2008-05-13 17:20:47
Message-ID: 530.93438.qm@web34401.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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DDL = Data Definition Language

I.e.; CREATE, ALTER and DROP statements.

Bruce

--- A B <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> In this function I create no table, I just do insert into
> various
> already existing tables.
> It is not a prepared statement, but a function I created, so
> I'm not
> sure if EXECUTE is what I should use.
> This function has successfully run many times before, over
> several days.
>
> Excuse my ignorance, but what is DDL commands? Is that like
> creating tables?
>
>
> 2008/5/13 A. Kretschmer <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>:
> > am Tue, dem 13.05.2008, um 15:08:51 +0200 mailte A B
> folgendes:
> >
> >
> > > I got an error
> > >
> > > SELECT ERecord(100, 3492,'2008-05-13 10:25:57', 1, 0);
> > >
> > > gave me (translating into english)
> > >
> > > ERROR: relation with OID 31330 doesn't exist
> > > CONTEXT: SQL-statement: "INSERT INTO eLog
> (customer,shop,event,time)
> > > VALUES ( $1 , $2 , $3 , $4 )"
> > > PL/pgSQL function "erecord" line 5 at SQL statement
> > >
> > > ERecord is a function written in PL/pgSQL... so what can
> this mean?
> >
> > Wild gues: within this function you create this table and
> you don't use
> > EXECUTE for that. When you start a new session, the first
> time yout
> > function works fine, but the second call fails. Right?
> >
> > PG caches the plan and the OID's for objects, because this
> fact it fails
> > the second time. To prevent this, use EXECUTE for all
> DDL-commands.
> >
> >
> > Andreas
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