A simple work around if that is your exact query would be to use regex
matching against '^id[1-9a-d]$'.
Just a thought,
-DEJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim J Trowbridge [SMTP:trowbrid@execpc.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 1998 11:02 AM
> To: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: [SQL] DefineQueryRewrite: rule plan string too big
>
> First, thanks for the help on sorting by birth month.
> BTW: The reason I needed to do that was because otherwise it would
> have
> been sorted by birth year, and a birthday list isn't very convenient
> when sorted by year. :-)
>
> Now I'm trying to create a view with about a dozen (or more) items in
> the
> where clause:
>
> create view x as select * from table where ID in
> ('id1','id2','id3','id3',
> 'id4','id5','id6','id7','id8','id9','ida','idb','idc','idd');
>
> and the error is:
> DefineQueryRewrite: rule plan string is too big.
>
> I looked in the src, and in src/backend/rewrite/RewriteDefine.c,
> it mentions something about RULE_PLAN_SIZE being too small, and will
> eventually have to be large objects.
>
> Is this something that's in the works, and is there a workaround?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Tim J Trowbridge trowbrid@writeme.com
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