Re: SQL functions, INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING, and triggers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:03:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> > The specific concern I have is large result sets, like 10s or 100s of MB
> > (or more). We just added support for not buffering those in psql, so it
> > seems like a step backwards to have the backend now buffering it (unless
> > I'm confused on how a tuplestore works...)
> 
> Well, a tuplestore can dump to disk, so at least you don't need to worry
> about out-of-memory considerations.

Sure, it's just a lot of data to be shuffling around if we can avoid it.

Perhaps we could only do this if there's triggers on the table involved?
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