[GENERAL] how to see column comments?

2001-02-15 Thread Norman J. Clarke
Hello, I have not been able to get psql to show column comments in version 7.1beta4. Am I doing anything wrong, or is this a bug? A transcript of my psql session is below. Norm -- norman=# create table test_table (col1 integer);

[GENERAL] 7.1.1 backend crashes on updates to very large text columns

2001-05-28 Thread Norman J. Clarke
Hello, I have some tables with text (TOAST) columns that store xml files of up to about 100k in size. Most are less than 1-10k, with the 100k columns being somewhat unusual. I'd like to have the liberty of occaisonally storing up to about 2MB in these columns without resorting to BLOB columns if

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1.1 backend crashes on updates to very large textcolumns

2001-05-28 Thread Norman J. Clarke
, 29 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > "Norman J. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However, on update to the larger (100k+)columns, the postgres backend > > crashes and dumps core. I've included a backtrace from the core file. > > This looks entirely irrele