> Getting a query result from Tcl/Tk (pg_select function) uses PQexec.
> But PQexec IS GETTING ALL THE RECORDS IN MEMORY and after that user can
> handle query results.
> But what if table has thousand records ? Probably I would need more than
> 512 Mb of RAM in order to get a report finished.
This issue has come up before. The accepted solution is to open a
cursor, and fetch whatever records you need. The backend still
generates the full result, but the front end requests the records it
wants.
Does that not work in your case?
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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
