Re: out of memory

Thank you, Tom.

But there's a problem, for which I hope you have
more wisdom. The reason why I tried that query
is because someone tried the same thing via odbc
from pc quering postgres database and got the
same error ("out of memory").

What can a pc user do? Anything?

Regards,

Tena
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Tue 9/11/2007 8:58 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] out of memory

"Tena Sakai" <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> writes:
>> canon=3D# select * from public.genotype;
>> out of memory

> The version is 8.2.4 and platform is redhat linux
> on dell server. The table has 36 million rows.

Try \set FETCH_COUNT 1000

regards, tom lane