Re: Selecting large tables gets killed

From: Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
To: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: amul sul <sul_amul(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Selecting large tables gets killed
Date: 2014-02-20 09:56:47
Message-ID: F3269A63EC7B12A7788707C0@apophis.credativ.lan
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--On 20. Februar 2014 14:49:28 +0530 Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> If I set some positive value for this variable, psql runs smoothly with
> any size of data. But unset that variable, and it gets killed. But it's
> nowhere written explicitly that psql can run out of memory while
> collecting the result set. Either the documentation or the behaviour
> should be modified.

Maybe somewhere in the future we should consider single row mode for psql,
see

<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/libpq-single-row-mode.html>

However, i think nobody has tackled this yet, afair.

--
Thanks

Bernd

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