Re: broken 'SHOW TABLE'-like query works in 8, not 8.1.1

I've waited 10 minutes before cancelling. On pg8 it runs in less than a second

: test=> EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM information_schema.element_types;
: ERROR:  record type has not been registered

I can reproduce this...

- sebastian

On 12/29/05, Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:14:59AM -0800, Sebastian wrote:
> > I have a query that previously worked fine using pg8 on Fedora. Since
> > then we've moved to a FreeBSD 6 server running pg8.1.1 and the query
> > doesn't seem to ever finish.
>
> How long did you wait?  In one of my tests the query took over three
> times as long to finish in 8.1.1 as it did in 8.0.5, but it did finish.
> However, EXPLAIN fails in 8.1.1:
>
> test=> EXPLAIN SELECT ...
> ERROR:  record type has not been registered
>
> Something about the information_schema.element_types view seems to
> be the problem:
>
> test=> EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM information_schema.element_types;
> ERROR:  record type has not been registered
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
>