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That makes sense. I'll just use a COPY statement instead like Hannu
suggests.<br>
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Pierre C wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">Does the psql executable have any ability to do a "fetch many", using a  
server-side named cursor, when returning results? It seems like it tries  
to retrieve the query entirely to local memory before printing to  
standard out.
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I think it grabs the whole result set to calculate the display column  
widths. I think there is an option to tweak this but don't remember which,  
have a look at the psql commands (\?), formatting section.
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
John E. Beaver
Bioinformatics Developer
Harvard Medical School</pre>
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