Re: max_expr_depth

Joseph Shraibman <jks@selectacast.net> writes:

> I recently tried to do a big update with postgres 7.1.2.  The update was
> something like
> UPDATE table SET status = 2 WHERE id IN (a few thousand entries)  AND
> status = 1;
>
>
> and I got:
> ERROR:  Expression too complex: nesting depth exceeds max_expr_depth =
> 10000

Most likely your IN clause is too big.  Try loading those few thousand
entries into a temporary table and doing a join.

-Doug
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