--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "mohamed_banaouas"
<mohamed_banaouas@y...> wrote:

> may be the error is caused by lack of disk space while serving your
> long long transaction; this kind of operation needs many

Nope. The records are very small, in fact 3 integers. The server has
40G+ free, and my machine had 12.5G free. The GDB is 553k before,
and 1.6G after the inserts which occur before the select update
transaction.