Tim Kane wrote:

> I have a fairly simple query, running on a particularly large table.  For
> illustration:
> 
> echo "select * from really_big_table;" | psql my_database > /dev/null

See psql's FETCH_COUNT. From the manpage:

           FETCH_COUNT
               If this variable is set to an integer value > 0, the results
of
               SELECT queries are fetched and displayed in groups of that
many
               rows, rather than the default behavior of collecting the
entire
               result set before display. Therefore only a limited amount of
               memory is used, regardless of the size of the result set.

Best regards,
-- 
Daniel
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