Re: [HACKERS] extending postgres buffer/query limits - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] extending postgres buffer/query limits
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Msg-id 0f826864b01c740bc2552299bb3645a0
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In response to [HACKERS] extending postgres buffer/query limits  (dj@pelf.harvard.edu (Diab Jerius))
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>
> I have a very wide table, too wide to normally be created (due to
> buffer size constraints), which was created via inheritance of two classes.
>
> I'm trying to move the table from 6.0 to 6.1, but pg_dump gives a
> Bus Error (under sparc Solaris 2.5.1) after partially printing out the
> header.  I presume this is because the line to be printed was too long
> and overflowed a buffer.
>
> [NOTE to author of pg_dumpall:  it should check the return of
>     pg_dump to ensure that there was no error.]

Done.

>
> Can someone point me to where I should start looking in order to relieve
> the buffer limitations in postgres?  I can't make the table any narrower.

I find this hard to believe.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

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