I've seen this a few times. It usually results from an unescaped
embedded apostrophe, e.g.,
INSERT INTO ybsc_note (rem) VALUES ('This don't work 'cuz there ain't no
escapes or backslashes around my single quotes.');
Cheers,
Ed Loehr
pawel wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem with populating the following table
>
> CREATE TABLE ybsc_note -- The Bright Star Catalogue Notes
> ( nid int NOT NULL, -- local id
> ybscid int NOT NULL, -- YBSC id number
> cat char(4), -- Category
> rem char(120), -- Remark
> primary key(nid)
> );
>
> note that rem field is char(120), so it is relatively big.
> After inserting about 266 entries into this table I am getting the
> error message:
>
> > query buffer max length of 16384 exceeded
>
> Do you know how can I chang the size of the query buffer or do
> something else to fix this problem?
>
> thanks a lot
> pawel
>
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