pg_views view doesn't work

Started by Jim Buttafuocoover 24 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Jim Buttafuoco
jim@spectrumtelecorp.com

Hi all,

I am having a problem with the "pg_views" view. It seems that the
internal function pg_get_viewdef() is the problem. See below.

This problem is preventing me from dumping the database (either as 1
export or 1 table at a time). I have recreated the database, but the
problem seems to have come back again last night. If I create a new
database now the problem doesn't happen.

Thanks
Jim

TEST=# select version();
version
---------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC egcs-2.91.66
(1 row)

TEST=# select * from pg_views;
ERROR: cache lookup for proc 189295778 failed
TEST=#

TEST=# \d pg_views
View "pg_views"
Attribute | Type | Modifier
------------+------+----------
viewname | name |
viewowner | name |
definition | text |
View definition: SELECT c.relname AS viewname,
pg_get_userbyid(c.relowner) AS viewowner, pg_get_viewdef(c.relname) AS
definition FROM pg_class c WHERE (c.relkind = 'v'::"char");

TEST=# select pg_get_viewdef(c.relname) from pg_class c;
ERROR: cache lookup for proc 189295778 failed
TEST=#

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Jim Buttafuoco (#1)
Re: pg_views view doesn't work

"Jim Buttafuoco" <jim@spectrumtelecorp.com> writes:

I am having a problem with the "pg_views" view. It seems that the
internal function pg_get_viewdef() is the problem. See below.

It looks to me like you've got some one view that refers to a
no-longer-existent function. To figure out which it is, try
"select * from pg_views limit N" for various N until you know
where the failing row is, then extract just the viewname of that
row.

regards, tom lane

#3Jim Buttafuoco
jim@spectrumtelecorp.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: pg_views view doesn't work

Tom

Thanks for your reply.

I dropped ALL of my views and recreated from a script. This seems to
have worked. I am running my nightly jobs now to see if some how they
are causing the views to break. I will report back later.

Jim

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"Jim Buttafuoco" <jim@spectrumtelecorp.com> writes:

I am having a problem with the "pg_views" view. It seems that the
internal function pg_get_viewdef() is the problem. See below.

It looks to me like you've got some one view that refers to a
no-longer-existent function. To figure out which it is, try
"select * from pg_views limit N" for various N until you know
where the failing row is, then extract just the viewname of that
row.

regards, tom lane