"cnliou" <cnliou(at)so-net(dot)net(dot)tw> writes:
> [ bizarre results from SELECT INTO ]
I had an idea: was the original table (t53) created WITHOUT OIDS?
There's a post-7.4.1 bug fix involving doing SELECT INTO from a table
without oids. I'm not certain this explains your problem, but I'm
not having any luck reproducing the behavior on my current 7.4 build.
regards, tom lane