I can confirm that setting auto-commit to true avoided the problem.

That's for this particular query, though. I don't know whether it would do
if the select query hit a different table. Probably that would mean it
would execute client side, and the error would come back.
On 15 Sep 2015 16:12, "Sumit Nigam" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> Is it right to assume that with auto-commit set to true, the mutate
> maxSize being exceeded error would not occur? This should be because now
> server side does the commit automatically when the batch size is reached/
> buffered.
>
> Thanks,
> Sumit
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* James Taylor <[email protected]>
> *To:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 15, 2015 7:37 PM
> *Subject:* Re: simple commands that mutate a large number of rows
>
> That config setting (phoenix.mutate.maxSiize) is just a safety valve to
> prevent out of memory errors and may be set to whatever you like. However,
> if you're going to just turn around and do a commit after running your
> upsert statement, performance will improve if you turn on auto commit
> instead (connection.setAutoCommit(true)), as that'll prevent double
> buffering and enable execution completely on the server side when possible.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, James Heather <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> I found today that I can't execute this:
>
> UPSERT INTO loadtest.testing (id, firstname, lastname) SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR 
> loadtest.testing_id_seq, firstname, lastname FROM loadtest.testing
>
>
> when the table has more than 500,000 rows in it ("MutationState size of
> 512000 is bigger than max allowed size of 500000").
>
> Is there a reason for the restriction, or a way of lifting it so that
> things get processed in batches?
>
> Does this also mean that if I had a large table, and I wanted to (say)
> null out one of the columns, I wouldn't be able to do it in one hit because
> I'd be changing too many rows?
>
> James
>
>
>
>

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