Re: server crash in very big transaction [postgresql 8.0beta1]

"ffffceffffac" "ffffbdffffaa" <jiangwei_1976(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)cn> writes:
> --- Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> wrote:
>> Huh, so what kind of operations did you execute
>> within the transaction?

> There are 1600 tables in database 'db1', I wrote a
> pl/pgsql function "update_tables" like

> "
> FOR table IN SELECT relname FROM pg_class
> LOOP
> ...
> DROP INDEX ON ... ;
> ALTER TABLE DROP CONSTRAINT ...;
> ...
> CREATE INDEX xxx ON TABLE xxx;
> ...
> ALTER TABLE xxx ADD PRIMARY KEY...
> ALTER TABLE xxx ADD ...
> ...
> END LOOP

Okay, so it was the number-of-deleted-files issue and not the
number-of-subtransactions issue. Still says we have to allow
commit records to be bigger than 64K ...

regards, tom lane