On Oct 28, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Perry Smith <pedz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I execute the SELECT statement directly I get:
>> 
>> psql:table.sql:28: out of memory for query result
> 
> psql will do this automatically if you tell it to:
> http://doginpool.blogspot.com/2011/11/retrieving-large-resultsets-from.html
> 
> cursors can work with your code, but they need participation from the
> client side.  basically you stage the cursor then repeatedly FETCH
> until done.

Ok.  I'll try that.  I'm still curious how to do it using cursors if anyone 
wants
to provide a sample.

Thank you,
Perry

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