Carl Sopchak <carl.sopchak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have written a PL/pgSQL function that performs these calculations by reading > the needed data, calculating, and saving the results. When run over a > smaller set of data, it works fine. But when I tried to run it over this > larger set of data, I got the error message "ERROR: cannot have more than > 2^32-1 commands in a transaction". > I have looked into trying to control the transaction within my function, but > apparently this results in nested transactions, which is not supported by > pgsql 8.2 (my current version). Try updating to 8.3 --- it only counts plpgsql statements as separate "commands" if they actually modified something on-disk. The 2^32 limit is still there but it's a lot harder to hit. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general