On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:27:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've been able to verify this on 8.1.4; psql -A -t -c 'SELECT * FROM > > largetable' > /dev/null results in psql consuming vast quantities of > > memory. Why is this? > > Is it different without the -A?
Nope. > I'm reading this as just another uninformed complaint about libpq's > habit of buffering the whole query result. It's possible that there's > a memory leak in the -A path specifically, but nothing said so far > provided any evidence for that. Certainly seems like it. It seems like it would be good to allow for libpq not to buffer, since there's cases where it's not needed... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
