Please try Tom's \g test:

	test=> select factorial(4000)
	test-> \g /tmp/x
	test=> \q
	$ wc -c /tmp/x
	   20881 /tmp/x
	
Do you see a number greater than 20881, something like 30000?

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > > So this is a psql bug?
> > 
> > Not here.  Do you see it?
> 
> Actually, no.  If I cut'n paste the number from psql to
> 
> cat > foo
> <shift> <insert>
> 
> then only 4096 chars are copied.  (Amusingly, I can't add a newline to
> ^D and close the file.  I must delete one char to do that.)
> 
> However if I open vim and paste there, the whole 12000+delta chars are
> copied.
> 
> So it must be a bug in Bruce's procedure I guess ...
> 
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