On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:50:18PM -0500, Stephen Clouse wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:33:30PM -0700, Jamin Roth wrote: > > OK running dmesg shows that the OS is out of memory. When $sth->execute is > > run are all of the records returned? That would take out a ton of memory. > > It would not surprise me at all if MySQL was stupid enough to attempt this.
It's not a question of stupidity, it's a very valid design choice that's part of MySQL's generally excellent performance. (Stupidity would be not reading the documentation ;-) Tim.
