[GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread jeff sacksteder
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?

Re: [GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread Richard Huxton
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

Re: [GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread Nicolas Barbier
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

Re: [GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread Mark Rae
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:25:36PM +0200, Nicolas Barbier wrote: 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, Well, the system will need to be able to roll back the transaction,

Re: [GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread Richard Huxton
Nicolas Barbier wrote: 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

Re: [GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
jeff sacksteder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? Offhand I think the only limit that might concern you is the CID limit of 2^32 SQL commands per

Re: [GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread Chris Browne
MaXX [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? An error string in the source code stands: cannot have more than 2^32-1

Re: [GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MaXX [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An error string in the source code stands: cannot have more than 2^32-1 commands in a transaction That means you couldn't do more than 2^32-1 INSERT statements. Right. But that wouldn't (in principle) prevent having each