using verly large varchar (binary Data) -> always Crash when viewing Table
store 10 kb Files with bin2hex into varchar Column, 100 rows
then try to look the Table, sometimes it works, sometimes mouse graphics destroyed,sometimes Windows GUI destroyed.
try to scroll the Table or resize Windows or Cells, its crash sometimes.
Crash -> cannot use Mouse or Keyboard, but Applikation in Windows work fine. look like freezes
Crash -> Graphiccard stopped, no Screen, Monitor/TTF goes offline
but never Bluescreen Crash !!!!
all Version tested 1.0 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 and lasted Version from 19-Jun-2005
First off, please bear in mind that the table viewer simply isn't designed for viewing such large amounts of data - if you need to view very large tables, you should use the view filtered data option and select only the rows you actually need. That said, it shouldn't really crash...
As I test, I just inserted 2000 rows containing a serial column and 124Kb of bin2hex output each into a table (by my reckoning, that's around 250MB of data. The table viewer worked without crashing, displaying all 2000 rows in around 10 seconds. Thats with pgAdmin and the server running on the same 2GHz laptop running XP Pro. I then did the same again with 60 rows of 300Kb each - again that worked, although it was horrendously slow that time.
What sort of hardware are you running on? What OS?
Regards, Dave.