wp_posts’ table doesn’t exist

  • heyrsmith

    (@heyrsmith)


    18 years ago

    database error: [Table ‘soa.wp_posts’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND post_date_gmt Out of the blue I have a wordpress install that is generating the following errors:

    <= '2007-03-08 02:18:59' AND (post_status = "publish" OR post_author = 2 AND post_status != 'draft' AND post_status != 'static') AND post_status != "attachment" GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 3

database error: [Table 'soa.wp_posts' doesn't exist]
SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date) AS <code>year</code>, MONTH(post_date) AS <code>month</code>, count(ID) as posts FROM wp_posts WHERE post_date < '2007-03-07 20:18:39' AND post_date != '0000-00-00 00:00:00' AND post_status = 'publish' GROUP BY YEAR(post_date), MONTH(post_date) ORDER BY post_date DESC

    You may see it here: https://www.cadc.auburn.edu/soa/

    I currently have all plugins turned off, so you will see a few other errors as well – ignore those if you can. This install is on a windows IIS machine – I do not have a way to look at the database to see if the table actually has gone missing, but I assume that it has by the error. I have not done anything to the site in a couple of weeks, so I am guessing maybe a corrupt database file maybe? Anybody think that reverting the database file to a previously saved version my do the trick in fixing it, or is it something much more obvious than that?

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  • Silly question: Does the table exist? Are you able to pull it up in something like phpmyadmin and check it out? Any errors when you do?

    You come up with some solutions but it appears you haven’t reviewed any of them yet.

    Thread Starter heyrsmith

    (@heyrsmith)

    Hey drmike, thanks for responding – no, not a silly question at all. Yes, my solutions were ahead of the gun a bit – This particular install is one that is tightly controlled by our admin folks and I do not have direct access to the DB – there is a (slight) institutional reluctance to service this install, so I always feel like it is important to be able to understand what might be going on and suggest ways of fixing it.

    What our support person was able to tell me this morning is that

    …one of the tables apparently had more data in it than was set in the database structure… for example, the structure was set to allow no more than 100 characters and ….it had well more than that…I have upped that to 255 characters and the site “looks” OK….

    …also the DB was completely screwed up though and several tables are barking at me that they need repaired and re-indexing…

    So that seems to have fixed it for now. We also had a particular page throwing the following error:

    database error: [Data too long for column ‘useragent’ at row 1]
    INSERT INTO wp_useronline VALUES (‘1173176402’, ‘Guest’, ‘Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)’, ‘131.204.119.146’, ‘auSofA ? Graduate Program in Community Planning’, ‘%2Fsoa%2Findex.php%2Fprograms%2Fmcp%2F’)

    Which seems to be the place where there is “too much data” The upping of the character limit has fixed that error too. My support person followed up with:

    Yep that’s the problem right there….so there was too much in the database in that field..and it “probably” caused the indexing to screw all up.

    That particular error looks like it may be caused by the wp_useronline plugin, which has never caused any problems before… Our support is unable to offer any observations as to how this happened or possible ways to keep it from re-occurring in the future.

    So I guess I am left with the following questions:

    1. How does this happen and is it normal?
    2. Does the fix make sense?
    3. Is there a way to avoid this in the future?

    Thanks in advance for any observations…

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