Re: [ADMIN] Enormous pg_sorttemp~ files when using "OR"

1999-12-18 Thread Robin's Postgres List Archive
Oh yeah, sorry - I forgot to comment on my environment: -PostgreSQL 6.5.2 -RedHat 6.0 -Intel Pentium II 400mhz 160mb RAM -Java/JDBC On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Andy Lewis wrote: > This has also happened to me. > > I had another programmer write a query that was requesting a field from a > table but,

Re: [ADMIN] Enormous pg_sorttemp~ files when using "OR"

1999-12-18 Thread Andy Lewis
This has also happened to me. I had another programmer write a query that was requesting a field from a table but, forgot to include the name of the table in the query. It was a 3 table query and he accidentally included a fourth table field but didn't add the table in the clause. I was suprised

[ADMIN] Enormous pg_sorttemp~ files when using "OR"

1999-12-18 Thread Robin's Postgres List Archive
Hi Folks, When I write a query with a "WHERE" claused constrained by the "OR" operator, postgresql creates the enormous pg_sorttemp~ files in ~pgsql/data/base/dbName/ that basically eat up all remaining disk space in a matter of seconds. These files are 1.8GB+ by the time the partition is full.

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum script

1999-12-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > It would be nice for new users; I think it would make it easier > > > for them to actually set out and do it. Many new users are > > > of the not-so-knowledgable variety, and shell scripting isn't > > > something they want to undertake. > > >