Re: [GENERAL] cursor_to_xml iteration of a table

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2010-05-25 at 12:05 -0400, Richard Wallace wrote: > 1) When using cursor_to_xml in a plpgsql function, the FOUND variable does > not seem to get set, so there is no way to exit a loop that is iterating over > the cursor. Below is the function code; it loops indefinitely when it is run. >

[GENERAL] cursor_to_xml iteration of a table

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Wallace
Hi all - I'm currently wrestling with generating XML output from a table that has grown to a size where simply using table_to_xml or query_to_xml is no longer feasible due to the whole result set getting loaded into memory. I've been getting familiar with cursors and the cursor_to_xml command a