"Andrew Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I believe I can work around this problem using cursors (although I
> > don't know how well DBD::Pg copes with cursors). However, that
> > doesn't seem right -- cursors should be needed to fetch a large query
> > without having it all in memory at onc
> -Original Message-
> From: Jules Bean
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 09:58:34AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:28:14PM +1100, Chris wrote:
> >
> > > but it is true that this is a flaw in postgres. It has been
> > > discussed on hackers from time to time about implem
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 09:58:34AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:28:14PM +1100, Chris wrote:
>
> > but it is true that this is a flaw in postgres. It has been
> > discussed on hackers from time to time about implementing a "streaming"
> > interface. This means that the cli
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:28:14PM +1100, Chris wrote:
> Jules Bean wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:22:36AM +1000, Andrew Snow wrote:
> > >
> > > > I believe I can work around this problem using cursors (although I
> > > > don't know how well DBD::Pg copes with cursors). However, that
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:22:36AM +1000, Andrew Snow wrote:
>
> > I believe I can work around this problem using cursors (although I
> > don't know how well DBD::Pg copes with cursors). However, that
> > doesn't seem right -- cursors should be needed to fetch a large query
> > without having it
> I believe I can work around this problem using cursors (although I
> don't know how well DBD::Pg copes with cursors). However, that
> doesn't seem right -- cursors should be needed to fetch a large query
> without having it all in memory at once...
Actually, I think thats why cursors were inv
Hiya,
I am running a very large SELECT - it selects every row from a ~10 000
000 row table. I'm running this in Perl using DBD:Pg, with the general
sequence:
$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT $fields FROM $from") || return 0;
$fh = new FileHandle(">$file") || die "Can't open $file : $!";
$sth->execut
