Re: Very slow queries on 8.1

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:31:27AM -0500, David Rysdam wrote:
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>>Right, it's about 100k rows and it is through libpq (pgadmin in this
>>case, but my app uses libpq from pgtcl). Is there a way to tell libpq
>>to not do what it "likes" and do what I need instead? I didn't see
>>anything in the docs, but I didn't look very hard.
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>Use the async interface. There you submit the query and retrieve rows
>as they come in. It's a bit trickier to program but it can be done.
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>psql doesn't do this though, it's not clear how it could anyway, given
>the way it formats.
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>Have a nice day,
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I'm experimenting with the async interface right now. Hopefully it will
fit in well.

It's OK if psql/pgadmin don't do it, as long as the app does.