On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Dustin Sallings wrote: > > If the solution is to just write a little client that uses perl > > DBI to fetch rows one at a time and write them out, that's doable, > > but it would be nice if psql could be made to "just work" without > > the monster RSS. > > It wouldn't make a difference unless that driver implements the > underlying protocol on its own. Even though we can tell people to make use of cursors, it seems that memory usage for large result sets should be addressed. A quick search of the archives does not reveal any discussion about having libpq spill to disk if a result set reaches some threshold. Has this been canvassed in the past? Thanks, Gavin
