On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 04:24:43PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Stephen Frost wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > Greetings, > > > > Toying around with FETCH_COUNT today, I discovered that it didn't do > > the #1 thing I really wanted to use it for- query large tables without > > having to worry about LIMIT to see the first couple hundred records. > > The reason is simple- psql ignores $PAGER exiting, which means that it > > will happily continue pulling down the entire large table long after > > you've stopped caring, which means you still have to wait forever. > > > > The attached, admittedly quick hack, fixes this by having psql catch > > SIGCHLD's using handle_sigint. I've tested this and it doesn't > > appear to obviously break other cases where we have children (\!, for > > example), since we're not going to be running a database query when > > we're doing those, and if we are, and the child dies, we probably want > > to *stop* anyway, similar to the $PAGER issue. > > > > Another approach that I considered was fixing various things to deal > > cleanly with write's failing to $PAGER (I presume the writes *were* > > failing, since less was in a defunct state, but I didn't actually > > test). This solution was simpler, faster to code and check, and alot > > less invasive (or so it seemed to me at the time). > > > > Anyway, this makes FETCH_COUNT alot more useful, and, in my view, the > > current behaviour of completely ignoring $PAGER exiting is a bug. > > Plesae add this to the next commit-fest: > > https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/inprogress > > Thanks.
Wouldn't this count as a bug fix? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers