Re: Very slow queries on 8.1

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:31:27AM -0500, David Rysdam wrote:
> Right, it's about 100k rows and it is through libpq (pgadmin in this
> case, but my app uses libpq from pgtcl). Is there a way to tell libpq
> to not do what it "likes" and do what I need instead? I didn't see
> anything in the docs, but I didn't look very hard.

Use the async interface. There you submit the query and retrieve rows
as they come in. It's a bit trickier to program but it can be done.

psql doesn't do this though, it's not clear how it could anyway, given
the way it formats.

Have a nice day,
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