Re: ALTER TABLE .. ALTER COLUMN .. ERROR: attribute .. has wrong type

On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 01:40:50PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:45:33AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> > ts=# begin; drop view umts_eric_ch_switch_view, eric_umts_rnc_utrancell_view, umts_eric_cell_integrity_view; ALTER TABLE eric_umts_rnc_utrancell_metrics ALTER COLUMN PMSUMPACKETLATENCY_000 TYPE BIGINT USING PMSUMPACKETLATENCY_000::BIGINT;
> >> > BEGIN
> >> > DROP VIEW
> >> > ERROR: attribute 424 has wrong type
> >> > DETAIL: Table has type smallint, but query expects integer.
> >> > ts=#
> >> >
> > I can cause the error at will on the existing table, but I wouldn't know how to
> > reproduce the problem on a new table/database. I'm guessing it has something

> Just for kicks, could you try running pg_catcheck on the affected system?
>
> https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/pg_catcheck

Neat, I hadn't heard of it before ;)

The version in PGDG has the "amkeytype" issue, so I compiled,

I got this:

[pryzbyj(at)database pg_catcheck]$ ./pg_catcheck ts
notice: pg_shdepend row has invalid classid "2613": not a system catalog OID
row identity: dbid="16402" classid="2613" objid="1086583699" objsubid="0" refclassid="1260" refobjid="16384" deptype="o"
notice: pg_shdepend row has invalid classid "2613": not a system catalog OID
row identity: dbid="16402" classid="2613" objid="1086583701" objsubid="0" refclassid="1260" refobjid="16384" deptype="o"
[...]

notice: pg_depend row has invalid objid "1124153791": no matching entry in pg_class
row identity: classid="1259" objid="1124153791" objsubid="0" refclassid="1259" refobjid="1064197368" refobjsubid="1" deptype="a"

progress: done (294 inconsistencies, 0 warnings, 0 errors)

.. those are the only two problem oids:
[pryzbyj(at)database pg_catcheck]$ time ./pg_catcheck ts 2>&1 |grep -Evw '2613|1259'
progress: done (264 inconsistencies, 0 warnings, 0 errors)