On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Eliot Gable <egable+pgsql-gene...@gmail.com> writes: > > When the trigger fires, I get this in my postgres.log file: > > 2012-04-17 16:57:15 EDT|test_db|169.254.5.138(56783)|****|[unknown]|30474 > > WARNING: Failed to materialize the live_user_activity table; code > 0A000: > > LOCK TABLE is not allowed in a non-volatile function > > > I cannot find a single non-volatile function in the call path; so I am > > baffled on where this error message is coming from. > > I'm confused too, but I'm not going to guess at details of an incomplete > example; the problem could well be related to code you didn't show us. > Please provide a self-contained script that triggers this message. > Also, what PG version are we talking about? > > regards, tom lane > Thanks, Tom. I will try to get an entire example put together which I can post which will reproduce it. For your reference, the code I cut out was just inserts, updates, selects, and if/then/else statements. There were no other stored procedure calls or function calls present in any of the code I cut out.