Re: ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort!

From: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort!
Date: 2003-03-11 21:25:53
Message-ID: 3E6E5461.9050008@selectacast.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)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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