Query return limited to 87500 rows

Hey guys, having a problem with the following code:

client = bigquery.Client.from_service_account_json(google_secrets_file)
query = client.run_sync_query(query_sql_string)
query.allow_large_results = True
query.use_query_cache = False
query.run()
response = query.fetch_data()

all large queries seem to return exactly 87500 rows (even if I export to an interim table first and select * on them). I can’t see this number anywhere in the library or the documentation, so have no idea where this limit comes from or how to proceed!

[tseaver]

@fhoffa bump.

[mikesjqubit]

I was fully expecting to be able to download everything in one go, maybe there would be max_rows = None flag to set. I’m very surprised that the row limit is this small. Honestly, the ugliness doesn’t concern me as much as the slowness of it - downloading 3m rows takes about 5 minutes using the loop method. Am considering exporting to GCS then downloading from there, it just feels so roundabout though!