From: <sinisa
Date: March 16 1999 12:20am
Subject: Err. 2008 and how to fight it :-)
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Alex Heiphetz writes:
 > Hi:
 > 
 > I got error 2008 trying to run a simple query on a large database
 > (query was something like: 
 > mysql> Select * from catalogue where price<3.00;
 > Database consists of 280,000 rows, in text form it's 37 MB of data)
 > 
 > Question: 
 > manual recommends using 
 > mysql --quick (or mysql_use_result() in C API) to circumvent this.
 > I have a program that uses seek_data(), so, unfortunately, this won't
 > work for me. Is there any other way? I.e. increase available memory :-)
 > I'm running this on PII-400 with 128 MB of RAM. There are  no  other 
 > memory/CPU hungry processes running on this box. 
 > 
 > Thanks in advance,
 > A.Heiphetz
 > 
Hi!


Please report on the version and distribution of MySQL, on the make
and version of OS and on the versions of C and thread libs.

Before that, run isamchk -o on the catalogue table.

May be it is corrupt.

Sinisa

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