From ee9796e44809ec11316f9271ee2e5d604f7d1319 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:19:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] In psql, when running a SELECT query using a cursor, flush
 the query output after each FETCH. This ensures that incremental results are
 available to clients that are executing long-running SELECT queries via the
 FETCH_COUNT feature.

---
 src/bin/psql/common.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/common.c b/src/bin/psql/common.c
index e56823c667..0a22d205c9 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/common.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/common.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2000-2006, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/common.c,v 1.130.2.1 2007/04/16 20:16:11 mha Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/common.c,v 1.130.2.2 2007/06/22 03:19:57 neilc Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 #include "common.h"
@@ -1100,6 +1100,12 @@ ExecQueryUsingCursor(const char *query, double *elapsed_msec)
 
 		printQuery(results, &my_popt, pset.queryFout, pset.logfile);
 
+		/*
+		 * Make sure to flush the output stream, so intermediate
+		 * results are visible to the client immediately.
+		 */
+		fflush(pset.queryFout);
+
 		/* after the first result set, disallow header decoration */
 		my_popt.topt.start_table = false;
 		my_popt.topt.prior_records += ntuples;