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

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