> "Mark Woodward" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com> writes:
>> psql -p 5435 -U pgsql -t -A -c "select client, item, rating, day from
>> ratings order by client" netflix > netflix.txt
>
>> My question, it looks like the kernel killed psql, and not postmaster.
>
> Not too surprising.
>
>> Question, is this a bug in psql?
>
> It's really a libpq design issue: since libpq provides random access to
> a PGresult, and has no mechanism for handling failures after returning
> the PGresult to the client, it has to slurp the whole query result into
> memory first.
>
> FWIW, there's a feature in CVS HEAD to instruct psql to try to use a
> cursor to break up huge query results like this. For the moment I'd
> suggest using COPY instead.
That's sort of what I was afraid off. I am trying to get 100 million
records into a text file in a specific order.
Sigh, I have to write a quick program to use a cursor. :-(