plandex-ai/plandex · error

error getting default plan config: %v

Error message

error getting default plan config: %v

What it means

GetDefaultPlanConfig wraps a failure of Conn.Get(&config, "SELECT default_plan_config FROM users WHERE id = $1", userId) with this message. sqlx Get expects exactly one row, so a userId with no users row (sql.ErrNoRows) also produces this error, alongside connection and scan failures.

Source

Thrown at app/server/db/plan_config_helpers.go:47

	`

	_, err := Conn.Exec(query, config, planId)

	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("error storing plan config: %v", err)
	}

	return nil
}

func GetDefaultPlanConfig(userId string) (*shared.PlanConfig, error) {
	query := "SELECT default_plan_config FROM users WHERE id = $1"

	var config shared.PlanConfig
	err := Conn.Get(&config, query, userId)

	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting default plan config: %v", err)
	}

	return &config, nil
}

func StoreDefaultPlanConfig(userId string, config *shared.PlanConfig, tx *sqlx.Tx) error {
	query := `
		UPDATE users SET default_plan_config = $1 WHERE id = $2
	`

	_, err := tx.Exec(query, config, userId)

	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("error storing default plan config: %v", err)
	}

	return nil
}

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Solutions

1. Check the wrapped cause: 'no rows in result set' means the userId is unknown — validate the user session/account exists first
2. If scanning fails, inspect users.default_plan_config for malformed JSON and repair or reset it
3. For connection errors, verify DATABASE_URL and Postgres health, then retry
4. Consider falling back to a zero-value PlanConfig when the user has no row, depending on desired behavior

Example fix

// before
config, err := GetDefaultPlanConfig(userId)
if err != nil { return err }
// after: treat missing user config as empty default
config, err := GetDefaultPlanConfig(userId)
if err != nil {
    if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no rows in result set") {
        config = &shared.PlanConfig{}
    } else {
        return err
    }
}

var exists bool
err := Conn.Get(&exists, "SELECT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM users WHERE id=$1)", userId)
if err != nil || !exists {
    // invalid session/user — handle before querying the config
}

config, err := GetDefaultPlanConfig(userId)
if err != nil {
    if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no rows in result set") {
        config = &shared.PlanConfig{} // fallback default
    } else {
        return nil, err
    }
}

When it happens

Trigger: Called from LoadContexts, UpdateContexts, GetDefaultPlanConfigHandler, or CreatePlan with a userId absent from the users table, a broken DB connection, or a default_plan_config value that fails to scan into shared.PlanConfig.

Common situations: User account deleted or id mismatched while a session still references it; fresh environment where the user row was never created; corrupted default_plan_config JSON; Postgres unavailable.

Understand the failure class

Background: Record Not Found Errors: "not found", RecordNotFound, and "was not found" — what they mean and how to fix them — this error's family across 28 libraries.

Related errors

• error getting plan config: %v
• error listing org roles: %v
• error storing plan config: %v
• error getting default plan config: %v
• error adding plan context tokens: %v

AI-assisted analysis of plandex-ai/plandex@e2d772072e (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/e16b6c11b3c9b48a. Report an issue: GitHub.