On 8/4/06, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov <ara.t.howard / noaa.gov> wrote: > > it's been a while since i used the ruby postgres bindings but, when i did, > both 'query' and 'exec' took blocks to iterate over results sets. > > have you tried? Not sure that solves his problem, Ara- he wants to keep the library from yanking the whole result set into RAM before it starts iterating over his code.