RE: [GENERAL] Large selects handled inefficiently?

[Andrew Snow]

> I believe I can work around this problem using cursors (although I
> don't know how well DBD::Pg copes with cursors).  However, that
> doesn't seem right -- cursors should be needed to fetch a large query
> without having it all in memory at once...

Actually, I think thats why cursors were invented in the first place ;-)  A
cursor is what you are using if you're not fetching all the results of a
query.


- Andrew