Re: Retrieving query results

From: Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Retrieving query results
Date: 2017-08-24 23:05:22
Message-ID: CA+FnnTwY0mZ1cO8hhBW2sOOGjXaVqfhECUKL6S_cZ6z2LUfcQw@mail.gmail.com
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Michael et al,

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I haven't tried it, but it sure looks like it would, if you don't hit
>> OOM first. pqAddTuple() isn't doing anything to guard against integer
>> overflow. The lack of reports implies that no one has ever tried to
>> retrieve even 1G rows, let alone more ...
>
> Yeah, looking at the code we would just need to check if ntups gets
> negative (well, equal to INT_MIN) after being incremented.

So there is no way to retrieve an arbitrary number of rows from the query?
That sucks...

Thank you.

> --
> Michael

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