"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Bhujbal, Santosh
> <sbhujbal@starentnetworks.com> wrote:
>> SQL execution failed, Internal error. SQL Statement: (COPY command failed
>> with error: ERROR: row is too big: size 8200, maximum size 8136)
> Hmmm. What exactly are you trying to insert into what? Normally when
> you see something like this it's an index on a text field that causes
> this type of problem.
It's not an index because the error message would say so. Evidently
it's a row that TOAST is unable to squeeze down to a workable size,
which suggests a very large number of columns. I'd suggest rethinking
the table schema ...
regards, tom lane