On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> If you need to deal with very large result sets, the standard advice
> is to use a cursor so you can pull a few hundred or thousand rows
> at a time via FETCH.
In case it's not obvious... in this case you might want to dump the
output of that query into another table; perhaps a temp table...
CREATE TEMP TABLE dupe_check AS SELECT ...
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