# Adding a column
**URL:** https://forum.scylladb.com/t/adding-a-column/1967
**Category:** ScyllaDB
**Tags:** troubleshooting, go-driver
**Created:** [May 6, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/adding-a-column/1967 "2024-05-06T21:34:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Manya](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/Manya)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/adding-a-column/1967/1 "2024-05-06T21:34:46Z")
after adding a column to scylla table , we are getting this error in app
gocql: not enough columns to scan into: have 7 want 8
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### Author:  [@tzach](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/tzach)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/adding-a-column/1967/2 "2024-05-20T10:19:23Z")
> [@Manya](#):
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> not enough columns to scan into
Which gocql are you using?
A similar issue was sloved _many_ years ago
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> I tried the gocassa driver(https://github.com/megamsys/gocassa) built on top of … github.com/gocql/gocql with scylladb.
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> \*\*Cassandra 2.1.8\*\*
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> In cassandra a query is performed on inside the code \`github.com/gocql/gocql\` for this query.
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> SELECT data\_center, rack, host\_id, tokens, release\_version FROM system.local WHERE key='local'
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> I received the results
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> \`\`\`
> Enter code here...&gocql.Iter{err:error(nil), pos:0, meta:gocql.resultMetadata{flags:1, pagingState:\[\]uint8(nil), columns:\[\]gocql.ColumnInfo{gocql.ColumnInfo{Keyspace:"system", Table:"local", Name:"data\_center", TypeInfo:gocql.NativeType{proto:0x3, typ:13, custom:""}}, gocql.ColumnInfo{Keyspace:"system", Table:"local", Name:"rack", TypeInfo:gocql.NativeType{proto:0x3, typ:13, custom:""}}, gocql.ColumnInfo{Keyspace:"system", Table:"local", Name:"host\_id", TypeInfo:gocql.NativeType{proto:0x3, typ:12, custom:""}}, gocql.ColumnInfo{Keyspace:"system", Table:"local", Name:"tokens", TypeInfo:gocql.CollectionType{NativeType:gocql.NativeType{proto:0x3, typ:34, custom:""}, Key:gocql.TypeInfo(nil), Elem:gocql.NativeType{proto:0x3, typ:13, custom:""}}}, gocql.ColumnInfo{Keyspace:"system", Table:"local", Name:"release\_version", TypeInfo:gocql.NativeType{proto:0x3, typ:13, custom:""}}}, colCount:5, actualColCount:5}, numRows:1, next:(\*gocql.nextIter)(nil), host:(\*gocql.HostInfo)(nil), framer:(\*gocql.framer)(0xc8200d80b0), once:sync.Once{m:sync.Mutex{state:0, sema:0x0}, done:0x0}}
> \`\`\`
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> and it works
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> \*\*In ScyllaDB 0.17\*\*
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> The same query returns back with no info from \`github.com/gocql/gocql\`
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> \`\`\`
> &gocql.Iter{err:error(nil), pos:0, meta:gocql.resultMetadata{flags:4, pagingState:\[\]uint8(nil), columns:\[\]gocql.ColumnInfo(nil), colCount:0, actualColCount:0}, numRows:1, next:(\*gocql.nextIter)(nil), host:(\*gocql.HostInfo)(nil), framer:(\*gocql.framer)(0xc820094370), once:sync.Once{m:sync.Mutex{state:0, sema:0x0}, done:0x0}}
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> \`\`\`
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> \`unable to fetch host info for 127.0.0.1: gocql: not enough columns to scan into: have 5 want 0\`
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> I tried using \`cqlsh to scylladb\` and ran the same query, but it works.
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> Can somebody throw light on what i can do in \`github.com/gocql/gocql\` to fix this problem ?