Re: Help with extracting large volumes of records across related tables

From: Paul Thomas <paul(at)tmsl(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Damien Dougan <damien(dot)dougan(at)mobilecohesion(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help with extracting large volumes of records across related tables
Date: 2004-09-13 12:10:23
Message-ID: 20040913131023.A6743@bacon
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On 13/09/2004 12:38 Damien Dougan wrote:
> [snip]
> Are there any tools/tricks/tips with regards to extracting large volumes
> of data across related tables from Postgres? It doesnt have to export
> into XML, we can do post-processing on the extracted data as needed -
> the important thing is to keep the relationship between PvA and PvB on a
> row-by-row basis.

Have you considered using cursors?

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