Even without saving to file, it is still killed: Welcome to psql 8.0.3, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help with psql commands \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query \q to quit My_db=# select * from a_table; Killed bash-2.05b$ PG log shows: could not send data to client: Connection reset by peer could not send data to client: Broken pipe unexpected EOF on client connection Can anyone help? Thanks, PS: psql launched from the same PG server box. ________________________________ From: Lee Wu Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 9:25 AM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: select * and save into a text file failed Hi, When I try to save a query result into a text file from "select * from a_table", once I got: out of memory for query result under psql Once got killed: My_db=# select * from a_table; Killed bash-2.05b$ And once it caused PG crashed. My PG version is: select version(); version ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49) (1 row) The table has 6287585 rows, and takes 2805000 bytes.