dpage@vale-housing.co.uk wrote:
>
> On 17/10/06 17:06, "Erwin Brandstetter" <brandstetter@falter.at> wrote:
>
>
> dpage@vale-housing.co.uk wrote:
> > With a new file, will it fail on a system table such as pg_class, or
> > just your data?
> >
>
> Could reproduce it with select * from pg_catalog.pg_class;
> .. overwriting an existing output file.
> .. creating a new output file.
>
> OK, so that pretty much rules out a data issue. Is this with
> PostgreSQL 8.1.something?
Database is v. 8.1.4. Debian Sarge with PostgreSQL from backports.org
select version();
PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i386-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.3.5
(Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
postgres@dbneu:~/dev$ uname -a
Linux dbneu 2.6.8.erwin20061004 #1 SMP Wed Oct 4 22:44:51 CEST 2006 i686
GNU/Linux
Local OS: Windows XP. Connection via puTTY SSH with port forwarding
>
> Interestingly, there are never more than 6 tuples missing. With small
> result sets fewer sometimes, but never more.
> I have appended a sample output file and a screenshot of SQL dialogue
> window with export dialogue
>
>
> Hmm – does File -> Export get it right?
Nope. First try with select * from pg_catalog.pg_class limit 40; yielded
6 empty tuple at the bottom.
Regards
Erwin
