Ennio-Sr wrote:
> My questions are then:
>
> 1. Is there a way to avoid displaying the '---------' lines, apart from
> the \a flag ?
I don't think so, not in that layout.
> 2. In case I put the memos in the main table, would it be possible to
> control someway the display of memo-text fields? [Only some of the
> records have a memo, and a referring col set to 'T', so I'm looking
> for a selective instruction, such as: if ctl_memo='T' display memo,
> else, display the other cols only].
Use a view along with a CASE...END expression
> 3. Does the pager work better on version 7.4.3?
I'm not aware of any changes. Is the problem when you have a single
text-field that takes up too much space? If so, I'd construct my view
with a substring:
CREATE VIEW my_view AS
SELECT a,b,c,substring(long_memo_field, 1, 80)
FROM ...
HTH
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd