Re: Problem with mysqldump

[Vivek Khera]

>>>>> "YZ" == Ying Zhang <ying_zhang@stripped> writes:

YZ> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't seem to find any note in the
YZ> documentation that says mysqldump will try to read the entire
YZ> database into memory if you don't use --quick or --opt.

mysqldump --help says this about --quick:

 Don't buffer query, dump directly to stdout.

Which implies to me that without --quick, it buffers the query in
memory.