The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2101 Logged by: Will Szopko Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1.0 Operating system: Debain Linux (Sarge)/Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) Description: Postmaster Crash Using PL/PgSQL With %TYPE on Non-Exisiting Column Details:
The postmaster in 8.1.0 crashes when creating or replacing a PL/PgSQL function containing an invalid variable declaration. The invalid declaration triggering the bug combines a schema with a %TYPE applied to a non-existing column. When a schema is not involved an appropriate error message is given. I was able to reproduce the problem on both Mac OS X 10.3.9 and Debian Sarge on x86. The following illustrates the bug. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ createdb trash CREATE DATABASE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat test.sql CREATE SCHEMA junk; SELECT version(); CREATE TABLE junk.my_table ( my_table_id SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, my_column INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION show_bug() RETURNS BOOLEAN AS $PROC$ DECLARE myColumn junk.my_table.bad_column%TYPE; BEGIN RETURN true; END; $PROC$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql -f ./test.sql trash CREATE SCHEMA version ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) (1 row) psql:./test.sql:7: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "my_table_my_table_id_seq" for serial column "my_table.my_table_id" psql:./test.sql:7: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "my_table_pkey" for table "my_table" CREATE TABLE psql:./test.sql:17: server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. psql:./test.sql:17: connection to server was lost [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dropdb trash DROP DATABASE ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster