| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Yang Zhang <yanghatespam(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL |
| Date: | 2010-02-23 06:09:24 |
| Message-ID: | 12128.1266905364@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Yang Zhang <yanghatespam(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'm relieved that Postgresql itself does not, in fact, suck, but
> slightly disappointed in the behavior of psql. I suppose it needs to
> buffer everything in memory to properly format its tabular output,
> among other possible reasons I could imagine.
That's half of it, and the other half is not wanting to present a
portion of query output if the query fails partway through. You could
certainly write a client that disregarded these issues (as I suppose
mysql must be doing).
regards, tom lane
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