On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andreas Kretschmer wrote: >> > I am using postgresql-8.3.7 and have recently got this error: >> > >> > org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: row is too big: size 8168, >> > maximum size 8160 >> >> Please show us your table definition. >> >> Wild guess: you have many, many columns, non-text (INT or something >> else), and such a row is bigger than 8 KByte, PG can't use TOAST. >> >> I think, you should re-design your table, read about normalisation. > > Or maybe a large column has been modified by > ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET STORAGE PLAIN > > In any case, if you cannot figure out what causes your row to be > so big, tell us the statements used to create the table and give us > an idea of what you insert (the whole row is probably too much spam). I thought even then if the backend can't fit it all in 8k it puts text out of line. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
