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What happens when I send a transaction that exceeds the gas limit of 3,141,592?
Will the transaction be transmitted to the network but never confirmed?
If my gas cost is 4,141,592 for example can 3,141,592 be paid in one block and 1,000,000 more in the next?
Will the error message I receive (if any) depend on the ETH client I am using?
The target block gas limit was PI million, but was increased to 1.5 PI million (4,712,388) in Homestead.
If you exceed the limit, in Geth, you will get error "Exceeds block gas limit" and the transaction will not be sent to miners. Other clients probably have a similar error.
If my gas cost is 4,141,592 for example can 3,141,592 be paid in one block and 1,000,000 more in the next?
You have to use 2 separate transactions if you want to split up the gas. (But 4.1M gas fits with the current limit of 4.71M so this single transaction is fine.)
