diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/types/query-ASTERIXDB-2950/query-ASTERIXDB-2950.1.query.sqlpp b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/types/query-ASTERIXDB-2950/query-ASTERIXDB-2950.1.query.sqlpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e4bdb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/types/query-ASTERIXDB-2950/query-ASTERIXDB-2950.1.query.sqlpp
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Type-mismatch
+ */
+
+(select value 49)[0][0];
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/types/query-ASTERIXDB-2950/query-ASTERIXDB-2950.2.query.sqlpp b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/types/query-ASTERIXDB-2950/query-ASTERIXDB-2950.2.query.sqlpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6748ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/types/query-ASTERIXDB-2950/query-ASTERIXDB-2950.2.query.sqlpp
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Type-mismatch
+ */
+
+from Metadata.`Dataverse` as dv
+select count(dv.DataverseName)[0];
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite_sqlpp.xml b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite_sqlpp.xml
index 48b10ef..0bfbcf2 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite_sqlpp.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite_sqlpp.xml
@@ -14612,6 +14612,13 @@
         <source-location>false</source-location>
       </compilation-unit>
     </test-case>
+    <test-case FilePath="types">
+      <compilation-unit name="query-ASTERIXDB-2950">
+        <output-dir compare="Text">none</output-dir>
+        <expected-error>ASX1002: Type mismatch: function get-item expects its 1st input parameter to be of type multiset or array, but the actual input type is bigint (in line 24, at column 21)</expected-error>
+        <expected-error>ASX1002: Type mismatch: function get-item expects its 1st input parameter to be of type multiset or array, but the actual input type is bigint (in line 25, at column 31)</expected-error>
+      </compilation-unit>
+    </test-case>
   </test-group>
   <test-group name="cleanjson">
     <test-case FilePath="json">
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-om/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/om/typecomputer/impl/NonTaggedGetItemResultType.java b/asterixdb/asterix-om/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/om/typecomputer/impl/NonTaggedGetItemResultType.java
index 633feeb..3adbc28 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-om/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/om/typecomputer/impl/NonTaggedGetItemResultType.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-om/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/om/typecomputer/impl/NonTaggedGetItemResultType.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 package org.apache.asterix.om.typecomputer.impl;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.om.exceptions.TypeMismatchException;
+import org.apache.asterix.om.functions.BuiltinFunctions;
 import org.apache.asterix.om.typecomputer.base.AbstractResultTypeComputer;
 import org.apache.asterix.om.types.ATypeTag;
 import org.apache.asterix.om.types.AUnionType;
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@
         ATypeTag actualTypeTag = type.getTypeTag();
         if (argIndex == 0) {
             if (type.getTypeTag() != ATypeTag.MULTISET && type.getTypeTag() != ATypeTag.ARRAY) {
-                throw new TypeMismatchException(sourceLoc, funcId, argIndex, actualTypeTag, ATypeTag.STRING,
+                throw new TypeMismatchException(sourceLoc, funcId, argIndex, actualTypeTag, ATypeTag.MULTISET,
                         ATypeTag.ARRAY);
             }
         } else {
@@ -60,6 +61,10 @@
         if (type.getTypeTag() == ATypeTag.ANY) {
             return BuiltinType.ANY;
         }
+        if (!type.getTypeTag().isListType()) {
+            throw new TypeMismatchException(expr.getSourceLocation(), BuiltinFunctions.GET_ITEM, 0, type.getTypeTag(),
+                    ATypeTag.MULTISET, ATypeTag.ARRAY);
+        }
         IAType itemType = ((AbstractCollectionType) type).getItemType();
         if (itemType.getTypeTag() == ATypeTag.ANY) {
             return itemType;