From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor@dunaweb.hu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] psql -A (unaligned format) eats too much
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:03:24 -0400
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Mark Woodward wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Wouldn't the "COPY (select ...) TO STDOUT" format being discussed solve
>>> this for free?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It won't solve it in the general case for clients that expect a result
>> set. ISTM that "use a cursor" is a perfectly reasonable answer, though.
>>
>
> I'm not sure I agree -- surprise!
>
> psql is often used as a command line tool and using a cursor is not
> acceptable.
>
> Granted, with an unaligned output, perhaps psql should not buffer the
> WHOLE result at once, but without rewriting that behavior, a COPY from
> query may be close enough.
>
>
You have missed my point. Surprise!
I didn't say it wasn't OK in the psql case, I said it wasn't helpful in
the case of *other* libpq clients.
Expecting clients generally to split and interpret COPY output is not
reasonable, but if they want large result sets they should use a cursor.
cheers
andrew
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