"Stephen Denne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A simple update query, over roughly 17 million rows, populating a newly added
> column in a table, resulted in an out of memory error when the process memory
> usage reached 2GB. Could this be due to a poor choice of some configuration
> parameter, or is there a limit on how many rows I can update in a single
> statement?
Do you have any triggers or foreign keys on that table? For that
matter, let's see its whole schema definition.
regards, tom lane
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