“Unknown column in 'field list'”, but column does exist

Question

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `transactions`;
CREATE TABLE `transactions` (
  `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `purchase_date` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMAR         


        

Answer 1

Nery niche solution when I got this error.

I had a BEFORE INSERT trigger on my table that did something with NEW.`field_mysql_doesnt_think_exists` and if I didn't pass that field to an insert statement then I would get

[ERROR in query 3] Unknown column 'field_mysql_doesnt_think_exists' in 'field list'