Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately, in testing the bugger, it accidentally worked. I find this > most disturbing. However, I was pleasantly surprised that it failed at > least one more time before working properly.
Weird; there's no obvious reason for the script to be nondeterministic. The only idea I can think of is that you were almost out of /tmp space and the missing data got lost because of lack of space to put it. I'm not sure whether awk/sed/etc would detect write failures on stdout. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]