Re: 7.1.1 backend crashes on updates to very large text columns

Hello Tom,

While you were busy responding (should have checked email sooner!) my
coworker helped me go through the core file and we found the exact
problem, which was of course what you pointed out. A little wasted time
maybe, but it was neat to see what was really going on. Thanks very much
for getting back to me so quickly!

Norm

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Norman Clarke
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Norman J. Clarke" <norman@combimatrix.com> writes:
> > However, on update to the larger (100k+)columns, the postgres backend
> > crashes and dumps core. I've included a backtrace from the core file.
>
> This looks entirely irrelevant to either TOAST or update; I think it is
> the known 7.1.1 bug with SELECTs that return no rows in plpgsql.
> Try 7.1.2.
>
>             regards, tom lane
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