[Robelle-l] set limits tablesize command

[Neil Armstrong]

At 10:17 AM 6/18/2002 -0400, Ted Ashton wrote:
Ted,

Yes, I thought of that, but could not come up with a situation
where that would be valid, alternatively the user could use
alternate methods to determine that fact, although I would hate
to have a customer resort to that. Frankly, I think that the
number of people who would be impacted are virtually none and
I have had a couple of customers hit by this set limits tablesize
issue.

Alternatively, you can shut off warnings via the set warnings off
command.

Neil

>Neil,
>   Is there any chance that anyone is depending on the table limits to 
> identify
>a problem--that is, I want my job to crash if I have more that 15Mb in this
>table?  If not (or, more precisely, if the chance is miniscule, as I suspect
>it is), then I'd say respond to the "set limit" command with a
>
>Note: Set Limit no longer valid--ignored
>
>or some such.  That is, as there is no danger to having the "set limit" in
>there, don't make it a "warning" but only a "note".
>
>Ted
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