Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > What about portals? Doesn't psql use portals?
>
> No ... portals are a backend concept ...
Since when?
According to the old doco you do...
select portal XX * from table_name where ...;
fetch 20 into XX.
If the PQexec() is called with "fetch 20" at a time
wouldn't this mean that you wouldn't exhaust front-end
memory with a big query?