Re: ERROR: Too many updates/deletes within transaction (cmin

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Petri_R=F6yti=F6?= <petri.roytio1@luukku.com> writes:
>> Every now and then I get following error message. It seems that it happens more or less randomly...I guess the
reasonis that some transaction log is filled. 
>
>> [Err] ERROR:  Too many updates/deletes within transaction (cmin). Reader gang not able to provide correct visibility
1/1(combocid.c:275)  (seg6 slice1 xback2-3:50003 pid=28899) 
>
> [ blink... ]  There is no such error message anywhere in the Postgres
> sources.  I suppose you are running somebody's heavily-modified version.
> You had better take this up with that somebody.

Google tells me this was in Greenplum's 3.2 release notes:

Resolved Issues in 3.2 -

3164 Too many updates/deletes within transaction error in serializable
transactions

In 3.1.1.4 and later, certain serializable transactions containing
function calls or TRUNCATE commands would fail with the error: ERROR:
Too many updates/deletes within transaction..

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greg
http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf