On 10/21/05, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote: > jeff sacksteder wrote: > > > Are there known limits to how many rows can be inserted by one transaction, > > or does that just reflect the already documented row, table and database > > limits? > > Well, the system will need to be able to roll back the transaction, so > at some point your system will grind to a halt. I shouldn't be surprised > if there was some counter that couldn't cope beyond 2^31 rows too but > no-one's found it yet.
Just by not indicating that a transaction did commit, others will keep ignoring its rows. There is nothing to rollback here, thanks to MVCC. Of course, those rows will still be physically present until the next VACUUM. -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
