Please try Tom's \g test:
test=> select factorial(4000)
test-> \g /tmp/x
test=> \q
$ wc -c /tmp/x
20881 /tmp/x
Do you see a number greater than 20881, something like 30000?
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > > So this is a psql bug?
> >
> > Not here. Do you see it?
>
> Actually, no. If I cut'n paste the number from psql to
>
> cat > foo
> <shift> <insert>
>
> then only 4096 chars are copied. (Amusingly, I can't add a newline to
> ^D and close the file. I must delete one char to do that.)
>
> However if I open vim and paste there, the whole 12000+delta chars are
> copied.
>
> So it must be a bug in Bruce's procedure I guess ...
>
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