On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 7:30 PM Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That error comes from GetNewTransactionId(), so that function must > either try to execute DML or do something else which causes an XID to > be assigned. I think a plain SELECT should work just fine.
It was indeed doing writes, so that much is not a surprise anymore. On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 9:08 PM Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 8:35 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > Yea, I'd have no problem leaving the "hard" limit somewhere closer to 1 > > million (although 100k should be just as well), but introduce a softer "only > > vacuum/drop/truncate" limit a good bit before that. > > +1. Since there seems to be agreement on this, I can attempt a stab at it, but it'll be another week before I can do so. -- John Naylor EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com