Re: [PERFORM] psql -A (unaligned format) eats too much

Ühel kenal päeval, E, 2006-06-05 kell 14:10, kirjutas Tom Lane:
> Neil Conway  writes:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 19:17 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> >> The general case cannot be applied for all particular cases.
> >> E.g. you cannot use cursors from shell scripts
> 
> > This could be fixed by adding an option to psql to transparently produce
> > SELECT result sets via a cursor.

I think this is an excellent idea. 

psql --cursor --fetchby 10000 -c "select ..." | myprogram

> Note of course that such a thing would push the incomplete-result
> problem further upstream.   For instance in (hypothetical --cursor
> switch)
> 	psql --cursor -c "select ..." | myprogram
> there would be no very good way for myprogram to find out that it'd
> been sent an incomplete result due to error partway through the SELECT.

would it not learn about it at the point of error ?

even without --cursor there is still no very good way to find out when
something else goes wrong, like the result inside libpq taking up all
memory and so psql runs out of memory on formatting some longer lines.


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