Re: 'Tuple is too big' Error

From: "J(dot)H(dot)M(dot) Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen(at)cistron-office(dot)nl>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 'Tuple is too big' Error
Date: 2001-01-15 07:50:05
Message-ID: 20010115085005.B696@cistron-office.nl
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 20:06:33 +0100, Christian Pomar wrote:
> Using phorum (www.phorum.org) based on PHP, I am getting the following
> error when trying to insert a message in the PosgreSQL 6.5.3 database:
>
> ProcessQuery
> ERROR: Tuple is too big: size 12440

There is an 8K tuple length in that version of PostgreSQL.

> (obtained from the log). Can anybody tell me where to find proper
> documentation to raise whatever parameter is necessary to avoid this
> problem?

AFAIK it's not that easy to fix. It is fixed in the beta versions of 7.1.

HTH,
Ray
--
Those who are willing to trade their liberty for security deserve neither.
Benjamin Franklin

In response to

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Dan Langille 2001-01-15 08:39:46 Re: getting number of rows updated within a procedure
Previous Message J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) 2001-01-15 07:44:46 Re: getting number of rows updated within a procedure