On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:15:56PM -0700, Tena Sakai wrote: > But there's a problem, for which I hope you have > more wisdom. The reason why I tried that query > is because someone tried the same thing via odbc > from pc quering postgres database and got the > same error ("out of memory"). > > What can a pc user do? Anything? Tell the user that he/she should use an appropiate WHERE clause. You might also consider adding more swap to the machine. Then it will go horribly slow, but it will work. HTH, Tino. -- www.spiritualdesign-chemnitz.de www.lebensraum11.de Tino Schwarze * Parkstraße 17h * 09120 Chemnitz ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match