Re: ERROR: XX000: function 60821C60 returned NULL

"Obe, Regina" <robe(dot)dnd(at)cityofboston(dot)gov> writes:
> I have an SQL job on SQL Server that dumps data to a table in
> PostGreSQL. This job worked fine when it was going against a PG 8.1.3
> server, but since my upgrade to PG 8.3, it has been working
> intermittently. Mostly not working and erroring out with
>
> ERROR: XX000: function 60821C60 returned NULL

That's a pretty low-level error; you shouldn't be able to trigger it
yourself without writing your own datatype or some such. Given the
set of types in your table, I'm betting that the bug is actually in
PostGIS, either in the geometry input converter or one of the index
support functions for geometry (you didn't show an index on the_point,
but is there one?). Try asking over there if they know of any such
problems as of 8.2.

regards, tom lane