Re: ERROR: fmgr_info: function 24809: cache lookup failed

Many thanks to Oliver and the several others who provided similar 
information. :) I will implement that, yes.

Still, it would be nice to know how you CAN make 
triggers/functions/whatnot do what I wanted.. if only for education's 
sake. :)

On 17 Dec 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 13:03, Jessica Blank wrote:
> > Hi all. I feel awfully stupid.
> > 
> > Migrating my skillset from Oracle to Postgres, I am trying (in vain) to 
> > create a trigger and a sequence to "auto increment" the primary key in a 
> > table, so I won't have to worry about setting it; each time you INSERT 
> > into the table, the primary key will be automagically assigned.
> 
> As Jessica said, use the SERIAL type, which will automatically increment
> the sequence and use its value unless an explicit value is given for the
> column.
> 
> > And when I try to INSERT into SENTENCES, without my SENTENCEID, hoping 
> > that the function/trigger/sequence will kick in and assign it for me...
> > 
> >    architxts=# INSERT INTO SENTENCES (CHAPTERID, SOFFSET) VALUES (123, 147);
> >    ERROR:  fmgr_info: function 24809: cache lookup failed
> 
> This probably means that you have dropped and recreated the function
> after you created the trigger.  The trigger is still looking for the old
> function, but it has been deleted.  To avoid such problems, use CREATE
> OR REPLACE FUNCTION ...  If you haven't got that syntax available, you
> need to update PostgreSQL.
> 
> 

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