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Old 04-10-2008, 07:42 AM
Tom Lane
 
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Default Re: Stored procedure array limits

"Paul B. Anderson" <paul.a@pnlassociates.com> writes:
> I have a large stored procedure with 16 arrays, mostly varchar, each
> with dimension 3000. The procedure works fine on a small number of rows
> used from these arrays but gets the following error for large rowsets:


> ERROR: invalid array subscripts


Right offhand I only see that error being thrown for out-of-range array
subscripts. Are you maybe trying to fill the arrays in nonsequential
order?

> If I comment out two particular arrays (that can have null values), it
> also runs OK.


As already noted, we don't support nulls in arrays before 8.2, but
I'm not exactly sure how that omission leads to this error message.

regards, tom lane

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