SOLVED (was: Weird SELECT bug in 5.0.21)

2006-08-31 Thread Renald Buter
On 12:27 Thu 31 Aug , Duncan Hill wrote: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:21, Renald Buter wrote: > > > The problem is that a simple 1-table query shows different answers > > depending on whether you select 1 or 2 columns. *blush* Of course. I see. How stupid. Thanks

Re: Weird SELECT bug in 5.0.21

2006-08-31 Thread Renald Buter
On 11:34 Thu 31 Aug , Renato Golin wrote: > Renald Buter wrote: > >Odd, eh? But what's worse, the JOIN between this column and other > >columns *also* uses this truncated values and the result is bogus. > > I wouldn't say odd, as you didn't specified any o

Weird SELECT bug in 5.0.21

2006-08-31 Thread Renald Buter
Hello list, I've found this strange select bug in retrieving rows from a table. I can best illustrate this with an output of two queries: mysql> select id,jn from paper_2001 limit 10; +--+---+ | id | jn| +--+---+ | 19360350 | 6165 | | 19360351 | 6165 | |

Re: mysql_use_result issue: useless iterating over unused results

2005-01-11 Thread Renald Buter
On 01:55 Tue 11 Jan , Karam Chand wrote: > Yup. > > This is a normal behaviour. mysql_free_result() will > result in bringing each unasked rows to the client and > freeing it up row by row. > This sounds to me as a useless "feature". What could be the reason for such wasting behaviour? > BT

mysql_use_result issue: useless iterating over unused results

2005-01-11 Thread Renald Buter
Hello list, I am having this issue with mysql_use_result: it seems it will iterate over all unused results if I call 'mysql_free_result'. The following code illustrates this: mysql_query(&mysql,"SELECT * FROM a_very_large_table"); res = mysql_use_result(&mysql); i = 0; while (row = mysql_fetc

mysql_use_result issue: useless iterating over unused results

2005-01-11 Thread Renald Buter
Hello list, I am having this issue with mysql_use_result: it seems it will iterate over all unused results if I call 'mysql_free_result'. The following code illustrates this: mysql_query(&mysql,"SELECT * FROM a_very_large_table"); res = mysql_use_result(&mysql); i = 0; while (row = mysql_fetc

Re: A concat_grouped implementation example

2003-01-17 Thread Renald Buter
n't know about the string type; but you guessed as much me-thinks. You might want to change some of the -fXX stuff, like removing them altogether. I actually stole them from the mysql example provided in the manual :) > and the other errors are dependent of that ones (undefined > Usage,e

A concat_grouped implementation example

2003-01-16 Thread Renald Buter
Hai there, I have created a concat_grouped implementation as a mysql function. And I thought it might interest other users too. No guarantees here, but you might learn from it. Find it at www.cwts.nl/buter/misc.html Regards, Renald --