Mike Ginsburg wrote: > Hello, > I am working on a personnel registry that has upwards of 50,000 > registrants. Currently I am working on an export module that will create a > CSV from multiple tables. I have managed to keep the script (PHP) under > the memory limit when creating and inserting the CSV into the database. > The problem comes when I try to query for the data and export it. Memory > limit is a major concern, but the query for one row returns a result set > too large and PHP fails. One row? Wow, I didn't know PHP was that broken. Try declaring a cursor and fetching a few rows at a time. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.PlanetPostgreSQL.org/ "No es bueno caminar con un hombre muerto" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly