> If the question was about the final query result sent to the client:
yes

> we don't spill that to disk, nor "hold" it anywhere.  The backend
> sends it to the client on-the-fly as each row is generated.
thanks, i didn't know that.
I asked because i have a function that produces a result in xml.
that is one row, one value even, but it grows pretty large.
how is that handled?

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