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From Willy-Bas Loos
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Responses Re: where does postgres keep the query result until it is returned?  (Sam Mason <sam@samason.me.uk>)
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Hi,

Where does postgres keep the query result until it is returned?
In the shared_buffers?
Or in extra memory that was not previously allocated, or something else?

What if the query result becomes very large, so that it won't fit into memory?

cheers,

WBL

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