STL_ERROR
Records internal processing errors generated by the Amazon Redshift database engine. STL_ERROR does not record SQL errors or messages. The information in STL_ERROR is useful for troubleshooting certain errors. An Amazon support engineer might ask you to provide this information as part of the troubleshooting process.
STL_ERROR is visible to all users. Superusers can see all rows; regular users can see only their own data. For more information, see Visibility of data in system tables and views.
Some or all of the data in this table can also be found in the SYS monitoring view SYS_QUERY_HISTORY. The data in the SYS monitoring view is formatted to be easier to use and understand. We recommend that you use the SYS monitoring view for your queries.
For a list of error codes that can be generated while loading data with the Copy command, see Load error reference.
Table columns
Column name | Data type | Description |
---|---|---|
userid | integer | ID of the user who generated the entry. |
process | character(12) | Process that threw the exception. |
recordtime | timestamp | Time that the error occurred. |
pid | integer | Process ID. The STL_QUERY table contains process IDs and unique query IDs for completed queries. |
errcode | integer | Error code corresponding to the error category. |
file | character(90) | Name of the source file where the error occurred. |
linenum | integer | Line number in the source file where the error occurred. |
context | character(100) | Cause of the error. |
error | character(512) | Error message. |
Sample queries
The following example retrieves the error information from STL_ERROR.
select process, errcode, linenum as line, trim(error) as err from stl_error; process | errcode | line | err --------------+---------+------+------------------------------------------------------------------ padbmaster | 8001 | 194 | Path prefix: s3://redshift-downloads/testnulls/venue.txt* padbmaster | 8001 | 529 | Listing bucket=redshift-downloads prefix=tests/category-csv-quotes padbmaster | 2 | 190 | database "template0" is not currently accepting connections padbmaster | 32 | 1956 | pq_flush: could not send data to client: Broken pipe (4 rows)