On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:27:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> > I've been able to verify this on 8.1.4; psql -A -t -c 'SELECT * FROM
> > largetable' > /dev/null results in psql consuming vast quantities of
> > memory. Why is this?
>
> Is it different without the -A?
Nope.
> I'm reading this as just another uninformed complaint about libpq's
> habit of buffering the whole query result. It's possible that there's
> a memory leak in the -A path specifically, but nothing said so far
> provided any evidence for that.
Certainly seems like it. It seems like it would be good to allow for
libpq not to buffer, since there's cases where it's not needed...
--
Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com
Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117
vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
