“The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size” Deleting 267 Records

Question

I\'m trying to delete 267 records out of about 40 million. The query looks like:

delete from pricedata
where
pricedate > \'20120413\'

p

Answer 1

What worked: changing innodb_buffer_pool_size to 256M (see comments under Quassnoi's original comment).