Does the psql executable have any ability to do a "fetch many", using a server-side named cursor, when returning results? It seems like it tries to retrieve the query entirely to local memory before printing to standard out.
I think it grabs the whole result set to calculate the display column widths. I think there is an option to tweak this but don't remember which, have a look at the psql commands (\?), formatting section.
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