Ben,

In some older versions of R:Base (not just runtime), a query against 
sys_columns could cause a crash if there were views in the database 
that had variables in their definitions.  Do you have any views where 
there is a dotted variable in the view definition?  (It made no difference 
whether the query even referenced that view at all.)  Predefining the 
variables stopped the crashes.  

Bill

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:25:47 -0000, Ben Petersen wrote:

>Larry,
>
>I found the offending statement by commenting out chunks of code, 
>and by elimination came to the one statement. So I can't say with 
>confidence that it actually executed.
>
>A few minutes ago it worked with a chunk of similar code 
>commented out before (but that didn't happen yesterday), which 
>leads me to believe that it is not the statement itself, but some odd 
>combination of circumstances. There are something like 5 nearly 
>successive queries against the sys_columns table in the preceding 
>block of code... maybe the 5th pushed it over the edge.
>
>But, as I mentioned before, this has been in place for a long time... 
>if I made any changes in this part of the code recently they were 
>purely cosmetic (ie remove/add blank lines). Why it failed now, and 
>why it runs fine under regular RBase would be the larger questions.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ben Petersen
>
>
>On 6 Feb 2002, at 12:24, Lawrence Lustig wrote:
>
>> Ben:
>> 
>> Was the program bombing when the code was executed, or was 
the offending
>> line never even reached in the execution flow?
>> --
>> Larry
>> 
>> 
>> 
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