Thank you, Tom. But there's a problem, for which I hope you have more wisdom. The reason why I tried that query is because someone tried the same thing via odbc from pc quering postgres database and got the same error ("out of memory").
What can a pc user do? Anything? Regards, Tena [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 9/11/2007 8:58 PM To: Tena Sakai Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] out of memory "Tena Sakai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> canon=3D# select * from public.genotype; >> out of memory > The version is 8.2.4 and platform is redhat linux > on dell server. The table has 36 million rows. Try \set FETCH_COUNT 1000 regards, tom lane