Re: postgres block_size problem

"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Bhujbal, Santosh
> <sbhujbal@starentnetworks.com> wrote:
>> SQL execution failed, Internal error. SQL Statement: (COPY command failed
>> with error: ERROR:  row is too big: size 8200, maximum size 8136)

> Hmmm.  What exactly are you trying to insert into what?  Normally when
> you see something like this it's an index on a text field that causes
> this type of problem.

It's not an index because the error message would say so.  Evidently
it's a row that TOAST is unable to squeeze down to a workable size,
which suggests a very large number of columns.  I'd suggest rethinking
the table schema ...

            regards, tom lane