On 11/11/05, sandhya <sandhyar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > please...tell me if there is possibility of finding out the size of a > record in the specified table. > Is there any built in function to know the size of each record by passing a > query? > I need this Inorder to allocate the memory after retrieving the records. > Pls suggest me. You are not giving enough information. What programming language are you using? What do you mean by a "record"? Do you want to know much memory to allocate to store each tuple resulting from a query? If so, that will obviously depend on the type of each column and the size of each field. John Barham ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
