Re: (fwd) sorting question

2002-06-24 Thread Cindy
OK, I determined that at least part of the problem was that I ran out of space in /var/tmp, so I reset TMPDIR to a directory that's 40G in size an am trying again. But I'd still be very interested in any comments on the below select statement given the size of everything involved (eg, an 1800M

Re: (fwd) sorting question

2002-06-24 Thread Roger Baklund
* Cindy OK, I determined that at least part of the problem was that I ran out of space in /var/tmp, so I reset TMPDIR to a directory that's 40G in size an am trying again. But I'd still be very interested in any comments on the below select statement given the size of everything involved

(fwd) sorting question

2002-06-23 Thread Cindy
OK I must say I don't think much of this filter if it couldn't tell it was a relevant question. After all, there's a select statement in it!! Anyway, any help or comments appreciated. Since initially sending this, I've learned why my predecesser did it this way -- eight hours later, and it's

Re: (fwd) sorting question

2002-06-23 Thread Cindy
I wrote earlier: select b.id, a.aid, a.wid, a.start, a.length into outfile 'newindex.txt' from wordindex a, wordforms b where a.wordform = b.wordform order by b.id, a.id, a.wid, a.start; I've actually sat down and tried this at the mysql command line.