Re: [GENERAL] Expectations of MEM requirements for a DB with large tables.

[Bruce Guenter]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:41:12PM -0800, Michael Miyabara-McCaskey wrote:
> Out of curiosity, if I were using something else besides "psql" would this
> have still been a problem?

Yes.  The library interface in libpq will pull the entire record set
into memory unless you use cursors.
-- 
Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                       http://em.ca/~bruceg/

PGP signature