Title: Continuous Database Errors
Last modified: July 31, 2018

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# Continuous Database Errors

 *  Resolved [kallym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallym/)
 * (@kallym)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-database-errors/)
 * Hello, I am getting a recurring error in the wp-admin/ error_log. It seems to
   be occurring from once every second to every two minutes. The log file is building
   rapidly and I have to delete it frequently.
 * I thought it had something to do with the Give donation plugin, but my hosting
   provider said it looked like it was the Groups plugin. I deactivated the Groups
   plugin for a few minutes and no errors were logged. As soon as I activated it
   again it started logging errors. The error always starts out like this:
 * [30-Jul-2018 15:16:18 America/Los_Angeles] WordPress database error Unknown column‘
   post_id’ in ‘field list’ for query SELECT wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN
   wp_give_formmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_give_formmeta.form_id ) WHERE 1=1 AND (
   (
   wp_give_formmeta.meta_key = ‘_give_goal_option’ AND wp_give_formmeta.meta_value
   = ‘enabled’ ) ) AND wp_posts.post_type = ‘give_forms’ AND ((wp_posts.post_status
   = ‘publish’)) AND wp_posts.ID IN ( SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE ID NOT IN ( 
   SELECT post_id FROM wp_give_formmeta WHERE wp_give_formmeta.meta_key = ‘groups-
   groups_read_post’ ) UNION ALL SELECT post_id AS ID FROM wp_give_formmeta WHERE
   wp_give_formmeta.meta_key = ‘groups-groups_read_post’ AND etc. etc. etc. it’s
   very long!
 * We have used both of these plugins for a few years and keep them updated. Do 
   you know what might be going on here? Thank You!!

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 *  [gtsiokos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gtsiokos/)
 * (@gtsiokos)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-database-errors/#post-10550807)
 * Hi Kallym,
 * Thanks for mentioning and for adding your debug output.
 * I have noticed the issue when Give plugin is installed mentioning that a db table
   is missing related to Give plugin. However, this needs to be further investigated
   why there is this incompatibility between Groups and Give.
 * For the moment I would recommend you to go to _Groups > Options_ and disable 
   access restrictions for the post type _Form give\_forms_, in order to keep using
   Groups restrictions for your site apart from donation forms created by Give.
 * Kind regards,
    George
 *  Thread Starter [kallym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallym/)
 * (@kallym)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-database-errors/#post-10553223)
 * I disabled access restrictions for Forms give_forms and purged all caches, but
   the error is still being recorded several times a minute. All I can do for the
   time being is go in and delete the error log every few days. I did put in a ticket
   with Give and they created a github issue at [https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3538](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/issues/3538)
 * Thank you!
 *  Plugin Author [Kento](https://wordpress.org/support/users/proaktion/)
 * (@proaktion)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-database-errors/#post-10593449)
 * It seems that this plugin is using its own table to store meta data instead of
   using the standard `postmeta` table. I don’t see why that table is even created
   as it has the same structure and it seems to be used to pull meta data for the
   custom post type. But I’m not really familiar with that plugin, it’s just what
   I saw from a quick look.
 * [https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/blob/master/includes/class-give-db-form-meta.php#L73](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/blob/master/includes/class-give-db-form-meta.php#L73)
 * This table has a column called `form_id` instead of the usual `post_id` used 
   in `postmeta` and that seems to be causing the issue. Unless this is changed,
   I don’t think that the plugin is going to be compatible with Groups. Maybe it’s
   a good suggestion to rethink the design of that table to see if it is even needed
   or they could just work with the normal `postmeta` instead? Easier to maintain
   IMHO …
 * I will close this topic as this isn’t something we can handle from within Groups.
 *  Thread Starter [kallym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallym/)
 * (@kallym)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-database-errors/#post-10598105)
 * Thank you! I have contacted them and will follow up to let them know what you’ve
   said. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [kallym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallym/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-database-errors/#post-10598105)
 * Status: resolved