Re: [HACKERS] newbie patch-attempt: selecting large result sets in

2006-07-11 Thread Neil Conway
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 21:19 +0200, Chris Mair wrote: > One of the problems with this was that a user would expect psql to > work as usual (including all format and output option stuff) and > to do this properly most of the psql output code would need to be > refactored. Even if the refactoring wer

[HACKERS] newbie patch-attempt: selecting large result sets in psql

2006-07-11 Thread Chris Mair
Hi :) powered by the great talk for newbie hackers by Neil Conway & Gavin Sherry [1] at the anniversary summit I sneaked into the Code Sprint and started working a bit on a Todo from Neil's Code Sprint Page: "Add a psql option to have it submit SELECT queries via a cursor, to avoid excessive