Postgres machine OS: RHEL release 2.1 (Panama) PGAdminIII client OS: WinXP Pro 2002 SP2 Clients: psql, PGAdminIII Query tool dfol=> select version(); version ------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96 The original versions looked like this (same behaviour though): create or replace function dfol.getcolstring (tblname varchar) returns varchar as $$ declare table_columns text; column_name record; begin -- skapa kolumnnamns-strängarna for column_name in select pga.attname from pg_attribute pga, pg_class pgc where pga.attrelid = pgc.relfilenode and pgc.relname = tblname and pga.attnum > 0 loop table_columns := table_columns || column_name.attname || ','; end loop; -- kapa av sista kommatecknet table_columns := substring(table_columns from 1 for length(table_columns)-1); return table_columns; end; $$ language plpgsql; create or replace function dfol.getcolstring (tblname text) returns varchar as $$ declare table_columns text; column_name record; begin -- skapa kolumnnamns-strängarna for column_name in select pga.attname from pg_attribute pga, pg_class pgc where pga.attrelid = pgc.relfilenode and pgc.relname = tblname and pga.attnum > 0 loop table_columns := table_columns || column_name.attname || ','; end loop; -- kapa av sista kommatecknet table_columns := substring(table_columns from 1 for length(table_columns)-1); return table_columns; end; $$ language plpgsql; -----Original Message----- From: Michael Fuhr [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxx] Sent: den 9 november 2005 19:56 To: Mikael Carneholm Cc: 'Pgsql-General (E-mail) Subject: Re: Hanging creating of function On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 07:38:53PM +0100, Mikael Carneholm wrote: > Can anyone explain why the first one never completes, but the second > one does? (the first one just keeps running, I canceled after ~1 min) > > PG version: 8.1 final Both functions create fine here in 8.1.0 on FreeBSD 6.0/i386 and Solaris 9/sparc. What client are you using? If not psql, have you tried with psql? What platform are you on? -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings