David Rysdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Right, it's about 100k rows and it is through libpq (pgadmin in this 
> case, but my app uses libpq from pgtcl).  Is there a way to tell libpq 
> to not do what it "likes" and do what I need instead?

The only way ATM is to declare a cursor on the query and then FETCH
whatever amount seems reasonable at a time.

There is support in the on-the-wire protocol for partial fetches from
ordinary queries (ie, without the notational overhead of creating a
cursor).  libpq doesn't expose that at the moment.  There's a thread
right now in pgsql-interfaces about adding such a feature to libpq ...

                        regards, tom lane

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