Re: cached plan must not change result type

On Fri, 2024-03-29 at 10:05 +0800, James Pang wrote:
> PGV14, client use PGJDBC driver and prepared statements, when a table
> "alter table alter column type ..." changes done, a lot of JDBC clients
> got this error "cached plan must not change result type".  when a JDBC
> client got this error first time after the DDL schema change, JDBC driver
> will clear this caching-plan and following same SQL statement got parsing
> again and new cached plan right?

Not sure; what do you observe?
Anyway, this is a known problem:
https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/server-prepare/#ddl

> How to avoid this issue when DDL schema changes ?

Don't use server-side prepared statements:
https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/server-prepare/#deactivation
You'll lose some performance though.

Questions like this had better be asked on the pgsql-jdbc list.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe