Re: NO DATA error message in Frontend when querying large datasets

hi tom,

thanks a lot for your response.
the frontend we are trying to use is a well known and spread laboratory
system. our consultant has experience with other databases (oracle, sql)
that are a lot bigger - with no problems. however i'm wondering that
postgres is not working with the lab system AND other common DB
frontends using ODBC. i guess there is no setting for: "use cursor
instead" ?

thanks
jk

Am 26.01.2011 20:16, schrieb Tom Lane:
> Jens Kapp<jens-kapp(at)gmx(dot)de> writes:
>> we have postgres 9.0.1 installed on a windows 2008 r2 server.
>> odbc is psqlodbc_09_00_0200.zip.
>> the database has currently a size of around 800mb.
>> it works as expected on the server (pgadmin), but if we try queries for
>> large datasets we get the error message: "No data" from our frontend or
>> any other database tools thats using the ODBC connection (e.g. anysql
>> maestro).
>> 1.) first we will make a query with only 1 column. we get data.
>> 2.) then make the same query but with all columns: it says "No data".
>> 3.) Afterwards we try the query from before again, but still getting "No
>> data".
> I wonder whether you're running out of memory for the query result in
> the client side, and this "no data" is coming from some code that is not
> written to cope with that happening.
>
> You might consider using a cursor to fetch large results a few rows at a
> time.
>
> regards, tom lane
>