Re: piping blob into shell command (tar)

2003-11-19 Thread Denis Mercier
/18/03, Denis Mercier wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:40, Paul DuBois wrote: At 16:21 -0500 11/18/03, Denis Mercier wrote: here's what im trying to do, i have a tar file in a blob field and i'm trying to retrieve it and pipe it directly into tar to decompress it, without first writing

Re: piping blob into shell command (tar)

2003-11-19 Thread Denis Mercier
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:26, Paul DuBois wrote: At 11:03 -0500 11/19/03, Denis Mercier wrote: i also tried: use my_db; select * from my_table; so when i try shell mysql --pager test1 | tar x the tar file does not get written to /usr/local/test1 but i still

Re: piping blob into shell command (tar)

2003-11-19 Thread Denis Mercier
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 14:02, Paul DuBois wrote: At 13:55 -0500 11/19/03, Denis Mercier wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:26, Paul DuBois wrote: At 11:03 -0500 11/19/03, Denis Mercier wrote: i also tried: use my_db; select * from my_table; so when i try

RE: piping blob into shell command (tar)

2003-11-19 Thread Denis Mercier
: mysql --skip-column-names test1 | more use test;\nselect * from test;\n \n's are added? -Original Message- From: Denis Mercier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: piping blob into shell command (tar

RE: piping blob into shell command (tar)

2003-11-19 Thread Denis Mercier
-Original Message- From: Denis Mercier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: piping blob into shell command (tar) On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 14:02, Paul DuBois wrote: At 13:55 -0500 11/19/03, Denis Mercier wrote

RE: piping blob into shell command (tar)

2003-11-19 Thread Denis Mercier
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:08, Dan Greene wrote: one more idea: try: mysql --skip-column-names --raw test1 | tar xf - no output, mysql --skip-column-names --raw test1 | more ./test1 -Original Message- From: Denis Mercier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

piping blob into shell command (tar)

2003-11-18 Thread Denis Mercier
here's what im trying to do, i have a tar file in a blob field and i'm trying to retrieve it and pipe it directly into tar to decompress it, without first writing it to the hard drive, here's what i've tried so far, I create a text file called test1: use my_db; select * into dumpfile

Re: piping blob into shell command (tar)

2003-11-18 Thread Denis Mercier
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:40, Paul DuBois wrote: At 16:21 -0500 11/18/03, Denis Mercier wrote: here's what im trying to do, i have a tar file in a blob field and i'm trying to retrieve it and pipe it directly into tar to decompress it, without first writing it to the hard drive, here's what

Re: Table is full error

2003-09-05 Thread Denis Mercier
try this link http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000796.html setting avg_row_length at 50 worked for me I tested and got mytable up to 9GB, (large table with variable size records ) the only reason I could see that it would matter to have an accurate value for the avg_row_length

RE: Table is full error

2003-09-04 Thread Denis Mercier
I also had table is full error, today actually. mysql alter table mytable max_rows = 2000 avg_row_length=50; mysql show table status like 'mytable' \G *** 1. row *** Name: mytable Type: MyISAM Row_format:

what is the security issue with dynamic format?

2001-10-02 Thread denis mercier
hi I am presently going over the mysql documentation to get familiar with it, It runs great on my development server (linux RH7.1 kernel=2.4.2-2 resin application server), I am in the process of optimizing and testing , I am using blob datatype in my main table, I understand why a fixed-size