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From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
To: raj@CS.UCLA.EDU (Raj Vadakkencherry)
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Subject: Re: Failure of append 
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raj@CS.UCLA.EDU (Raj Vadakkencherry) writes:
>  I'm using libpq calls to append to a database. (PQexec("append ...")).
>  The append string passed to PQexec is rather long at times: 15000 chars
>  or more. (it is a string of approx. 1000 points, each point represented
>  as in 15 chars)
>  For such strings, the append fails.

the parser seems to have some buffers that are currently hardwired to
8KB.  look for "8192" in tmp/miscadmin.h and parser/scan.l and bump
those up to something larger.
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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