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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort!
Date: 2003-03-20 23:14:38
Message-ID: 404.1048202078@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net> writes:
> My update looks like:
> UPDATE tablename SET intfield = 2 WHERE keyfield IN( ... )

> If I lowered the number of items in the IN() then I didn't get the error, but what that
> number is is a moving target. 205 used to work a few minutes ago, but now 200 doesn't
> work. A vaccuum seems to help matters. In previous versions of postgres I was able to do
> up to 10000.

Can we see the EXPLAIN plan for the failing update?

Also, I've forgotten exactly which PG version you're using?

regards, tom lane

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