Re: Commands per transaction

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 12:48 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > Is there any way of bumping this limit or am I stuck breaking up the
> > transaction?
> 
> Wow, I never heard of anyone reaching the limit :-(  Sorry, you are
> stuck (short of changing CommandId to 64 bits, which would bloat your
> tables considerably ...)

It was a complex plpgsql function iterating through a large volume of
data. It would appear that each IF statement in plpgsql is taken as a
separate statement because I don't believe I was dealing with more than
about 1.2B rows in a FOR ... EXECUTE 'SELECT ...' loop.


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