On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:51:46PM +0200, Willy-Bas Loos wrote: > i have a function that produces a result in xml. > that is one row, one value even, but it grows pretty large. > how is that handled? Rows are sent back in the entireity, so the PG instance would need enough memory to work with that row. When you're running a 32bit version of PG, values whose size is beyond ~100MB are a bit touch and go whether it will work. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general