Re: max_expr_depth

I don't know the cause, but if you only have to run this procedure once in
a while, you could select all the records that need to be updated, and use
a text editor to build a few thousand single update statement, then save
this file and echo it to the postgres backend through psql.

Good Luck!

-r

At 08:50 PM 6/18/01 -0400, Joseph Shraibman wrote:

>I recently tried to do a big update with postgres 7.1.2. The update was
>something like
>UPDATE table SET status = 2 WHERE id IN (a few thousand entries) AND
>status = 1;
>
>
>and I got:
>ERROR: Expression too complex: nesting depth exceeds max_expr_depth =
>10000
>
>What exactly caused this and how do I work around it?
>
>
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