On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:31:27AM -0500, David Rysdam wrote: > 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? I didn't see > anything in the docs, but I didn't look very hard.
Use the async interface. There you submit the query and retrieve rows as they come in. It's a bit trickier to program but it can be done. psql doesn't do this though, it's not clear how it could anyway, given the way it formats. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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