Re: [PERFORM] psql -A (unaligned format) eats too much memory

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:27:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> > I've been able to verify this on 8.1.4; psql -A -t -c 'SELECT * FROM
> > largetable' > /dev/null results in psql consuming vast quantities of
> > memory. Why is this?
> 
> Is it different without the -A?

Nope.

> I'm reading this as just another uninformed complaint about libpq's
> habit of buffering the whole query result.  It's possible that there's
> a memory leak in the -A path specifically, but nothing said so far
> provided any evidence for that.

Certainly seems like it. It seems like it would be good to allow for
libpq not to buffer, since there's cases where it's not needed...
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