Thread: Strange error message with 7.0beta1

Strange error message with 7.0beta1

From
Kyle Bateman
Date:
When trying to load my data from a 6.5 pg_dump, I got the error message:

psql:/tmp/ati-tmp.sql:87: ERROR:  Tuple is too big: size 8164, max size
8140

I trimmed back the dump file to a minimum of these commands that will
still generate the error:

CREATE TABLE "exp_log" (
        "expnum" text,
        "amount" float8,
        "tdate" date,
        "toid" int4,
        "pdto" text,
        "memo" text,
        "status" character varying(2),
        "etype" character varying(1),
        "glid" int4,
        "blink" int4);
CREATE TABLE "whold_log" (
        "expnum" text,
        "gross" float8,
        "fed" float8,
        "ssec" float8,
        "mcare" float8,
        "state" float8,
        "garn" float8,
        "med" float8,
        "dent" float8,
        "w125" float8,
        "w401k" float8,
        "eic" float8,
        "other" float8,
        "othacc" character varying,
        "cost" float8,
        "allow" int4,
        "taxstate" character varying(4));
CREATE TABLE "payroll_log" (
        "expnum" text,
        "amount" float8,
        "tdate" date,
        "empl_id" int4,
        "pdto" text,
        "memo" text,
        "status" character varying(2),
        "glid" int4,
        "gross" float8,
        "fed" float8,
        "ssec" float8,
        "mcare" float8,
        "state" float8,
        "garn" float8,
        "med" float8,
        "dent" float8,
        "w125" float8,
        "w401k" float8,
        "eic" float8,
        "other" float8,
        "othacc" character varying,
        "cost" float8,
        "allow" int4,
        "taxstate" character varying(4));
CREATE RULE "_RETpayroll_log" AS
        ON SELECT TO "payroll_log"
        DO INSTEAD
        SELECT  "e"."expnum",
                "e"."amount",
                "e"."tdate",
                "e"."toid" AS "empl_id",
                "e"."pdto",
                "e"."memo",
                "e"."status",
                "e"."glid",
                "w"."gross",
                "w"."fed",
                "w"."ssec",
                "w"."mcare",
                "w"."state",
                "w"."garn",
                "w"."med",
                "w"."dent",
                "w"."w125",
                "w"."w401k",
                "w"."eic",
                "w"."other",
                "w"."othacc",
                "w"."cost",
                "w"."allow",
                "w"."taxstate"
        FROM "exp_log" "e", "whold_log" "w"
        WHERE ("e"."etype" = 'p'::"varchar")
        AND ("e"."expnum" = "w"."expnum");

As the SQL was generated by a previous copy of PostgreSQL, I figured it
might be a problem with the 7.0beta1.

Any ideas?

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Re: [SQL] Strange error message with 7.0beta1

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Kyle Bateman writes:

> When trying to load my data from a 6.5 pg_dump, I got the error message:
> 
> psql:/tmp/ati-tmp.sql:87: ERROR:  Tuple is too big: size 8164, max size
> 8140

> CREATE TABLE "exp_log" (

> CREATE TABLE "whold_log" (

> CREATE TABLE "payroll_log" (

> CREATE RULE "_RETpayroll_log" AS
>         ON SELECT TO "payroll_log"
>         DO INSTEAD
>         SELECT  "e"."expnum",
[ a lot ]
>         FROM "exp_log" "e", "whold_log" "w"
>         WHERE ("e"."etype" = 'p'::"varchar")
>         AND ("e"."expnum" = "w"."expnum");
> 
> As the SQL was generated by a previous copy of PostgreSQL, I figured it
> might be a problem with the 7.0beta1.

Due to some internal changes the rule descriptor (so to speak) has
expanded in its size so now it doesn't fit within a tuple anymore. There
were some changes done in this area just the other day, so you might want
to get a later beta and try it out. (I think they make these every night.)

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Re: [SQL] Strange error message with 7.0beta1

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
> 
> Due to some internal changes the rule descriptor (so to speak) has
> expanded in its size so now it doesn't fit within a tuple anymore. There
> were some changes done in this area just the other day, so you might want
> to get a later beta and try it out. (I think they make these every night.)
> 

Get the snapshot, not beta1.

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