When you open any table that is not from a Postgres database in the table viewer, SAS^® Studio 3.7x and SAS^® Studio 3.8x can limit the number of rows that are selected from the table in the following ways:

• In SAS Studio 3.7 and 3.71, the table viewer opens with 100 rows of the table selected and displayed initially.
• In SAS Studio 3.8 and 3.81, you can set a new preference, Preferences ► Tables ► Rows Per Page, to determine how many rows are selected and displayed when the table viewer initially opens a table. 

When you open a Postgres table in the table viewer in SAS Studio 3.7x and 3.8x, there is no limit applied to the number of rows that are selected from the table. Regardless of your preference setting, SAS Studio retrieves all rows from the table. The number of rows displayed on each page of the table viewer is still determined by the criteria above. However, the act of retrieving all rows can cause significant performance delays when you are opening very large Postgres tables.

The workaround is to use code that can display the table but also limit the number of rows selected. In order to use this limit, you need to first apply a hot fix for SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to PostgreSQL. The hot fix is provided in SAS Note 66505, “The OBS= option does not generate a limit clause when you use SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to PostgreSQL to access a Yellowbrick database.”

After the hot fix is applied, you can use syntax that is similar to the following for displaying the table with a limited number of rows to retrieve: 

With the above hot fix, you can also limit the number of observations via the PRINT procedure:

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Studio 3.81 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Studio 3.8 is available at: