Re: BUG #7756: When upgrading postgis extension get row is too big: size 9272, maximum size 8160 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: BUG #7756: When upgrading postgis extension get row is too big: size 9272, maximum size 8160
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Msg-id 20121217182047.GB16554@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: BUG #7756: When upgrading postgis extension get row is too big: size 9272, maximum size 8160  ("Paragon Corporation" <lr@pcorp.us>)
List pgsql-bugs
On 2012-12-17 12:40:30 -0500, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> I couldn't get my EDB install to give anything meaningful to back trace, but
> same issue happens on my mingw dev install (which is running 9.2.1)
> I have the backtrace for that on this ticket:
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/1959

Its irritating that the error is happening in that simple_heap_update
where the backtrace indicates the old tuple has a t_len = 7011 and the
only variable length field changed is extversion which shouldn't be that
long.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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