Re: Poor performance with "large" table.

From: Holger Marzen <holger(at)marzen(dot)de>
To: pgsql-gen Newsgroup <pgsql-gen(at)basebeans(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Poor performance with "large" table.
Date: 2002-04-17 08:39:09
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0204171038110.3347-100000@bluebell.marzen.de
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, pgsql-gen Newsgroup wrote:

> 1. I'm keeping get error message when I use psql to get "large" data. For
> example, if one of my table has more than 74 records in it, when I run
> "select * from tbl...." on psql, it give me "less: not found" message. Also,
> if I run "\df" on psql, I got same message. But if I run "\df to_char", I
> got the inform I want. Looks like psql can not showing too much data. But
> what this error message mean, and how to fix it?

The frontend seems to use "less" (an improved "more") as a pager if more
rows are returned than fit on one screen. Be sure to have "less"
installed and in your PATH.

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