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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 
Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
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raj@CS.UCLA.EDU (Raj Vadakkencherry) writes:
> > Paul Brown <pbrown@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> > >   I sent this guy a note with the following observation;
> > >    8192 - ( <<n ) / ( 2 * sizeof(double)) = number of points per page.
> > >   At about 500 points  - given that a point is two doubles - you
> > >   hit page size limits. He says he's got 1000 point polygons.
> Sorry for mis-stating my problem - I meant 1000 doubles or 500
>  x,y pairs. In other words all my polygons have <= 500 points,
>  so I guess the 8K limit should not apply.

8KB == 8192B is the limit for the whole page, including the page
header/trailer, the line pointers on the page, tuple header(s), plus
any padding space.  the exact amount of this overhead depends on the
type of computer you have since the size of various C structures will
be different on different architectures.  500 points == 16B * 500 ==
8000B which is reasonably close to the limit.  if you are at or under
500, you are probably safe.

> I'm reading polygon data from the regional data set (S2K benchmark)
> and writing it to another postgres class. The failure of append
> occurs for some really long strings. The error message is
> "unterminated char/string constant"

like i said, i would guess that you hit the 8KB query buffer limit.
edit the files mentioned before, recompile/reinstall and see what
happens.
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  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
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