Unless you use COPY, libpq loads the complete query result into memory. In some cases, this is not desirable. I know that with non-MVCC databases, it is important to load the result from the database server in a non-blocking fashion because you can easily stall other transactions or even deadlock if you block during result processing (waiting for another network connection, for instance). Is this true for PostgreSQL as well, or can clients block without causing too much trouble?
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