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On 11/05/12 9:27 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> That is, if we have a large datum that we're trying to
> send back to the client, could we perhaps chop off the first 50MB or
> so, do the encoding on that amount of data, send the data to the
> client, lather, rinse, repeat?

I'd suggest work_mem sized chunks for this?



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