On Oct 28, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I execute the SELECT statement directly I get:
>>
>> psql:table.sql:28: out of memory for query result
>
> psql will do this automatically if you tell it to:
> http://doginpool.blogspot.com/2011/11/retrieving-large-resultsets-from.html
>
> cursors can work with your code, but they need participation from the
> client side. basically you stage the cursor then repeatedly FETCH
> until done.
Ok. I'll try that. I'm still curious how to do it using cursors if anyone wants
to provide a sample.
Thank you,
Perry