Re: process large tables

From the documentation
(http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/80/query.html#query-with-cursor)

"By default the driver collects all the results for the query at once. This
can be inconvenient for large data sets so the JDBC driver provides a means
of basing a ResultSet on a database cursor and only fetching a small number
of rows.

..."

With a cursor you fetch rows by pieces. It is well explained in the
documentation.

Bye
Nelson Arapé

El Jue 14 Abr 2005 16:37, Kristina Magwood escribió:
> Hi,
> I am trying to process a large table. Unfortunately, using select * from
> table gives me a ResultSet that is too large.
> The java runs out of memory even if I boost the vm memory.
> Is there any way I can programmatically (in java) retrieve say 10,000
> records at a time without knowing anything specific about the table? Then,
> when I am done with those records, retrieve the next 10,000, etc?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you can spare.
> Kristina