Re: ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort! - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joseph Shraibman
Subject Re: ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort!
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Msg-id 3E6E5461.9050008@selectacast.net
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In response to Re: ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort!  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joseph Shraibman <jks@selectacast.net> writes:
>
>>   //this update causes the error
>>   update table2 set status = newstatus where id in (chunk[0], chunk[1]...);
>
>
> Hmm.  Do you have a particularly large number of indexes on that table?
> Are you running a whole bunch of these operations in parallel?
>
I have 3 indexes on the table, and I do this operation in a cron job once a day, not in
parallel.


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