Yang Zhang <yanghatespam@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm relieved that Postgresql itself does not, in fact, suck, but > slightly disappointed in the behavior of psql. I suppose it needs to > buffer everything in memory to properly format its tabular output, > among other possible reasons I could imagine. That's half of it, and the other half is not wanting to present a portion of query output if the query fails partway through. You could certainly write a client that disregarded these issues (as I suppose mysql must be doing). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
