diff --git a/src/js/internal/sql/shared.ts b/src/js/internal/sql/shared.ts
index 7dc59a8b0290..9de5a55bcce7 100644
--- a/src/js/internal/sql/shared.ts
+++ b/src/js/internal/sql/shared.ts
@@ -85,8 +85,16 @@ class SQLResultArray<T> extends PublicArray<T> {
 
   static [Symbol.toStringTag] = "SQLResults";
 
-  constructor(values: T[] = []) {
-    super(...values);
+  constructor(values?: T[]) {
+    super();
+
+    // Not super(...values): spreading puts every row on the JS stack, which overflows
+    // once a result set has a few hundred thousand rows.
+    if (values) {
+      for (let i = 0, length = values.length; i < length; i++) {
+        $putByValDirect(this, i, values[i]);
+      }
+    }
 
     // match postgres's result array, in this way for in will not list the
     // properties and .map will not return undefined command and count
diff --git a/test/js/sql/sqlite-sql.test.ts b/test/js/sql/sqlite-sql.test.ts
index b86a49018104..100dc81edfcc 100644
--- a/test/js/sql/sqlite-sql.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/sql/sqlite-sql.test.ts
@@ -2030,6 +2030,35 @@ describe("Performance & Edge Cases", () => {
     await sql.close();
   });
 
+  test(
+    "returns result sets with more rows than a call can take as arguments",
+    async () => {
+      await using sql = new SQL("sqlite://:memory:");
+
+      // JavaScriptCore refuses to spread more than 0x100000 arguments into one call, so a result
+      // set this size fails no matter how much stack is free if the rows are spread into the result.
+      const rowCount = 0x100000 + 1;
+      const rows = await sql`
+        WITH RECURSIVE counter(n) AS (SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT n + 1 FROM counter WHERE n < ${rowCount})
+        SELECT n FROM counter
+      `;
+
+      expect({
+        length: rows.length,
+        count: rows.count,
+        first: rows[0],
+        last: rows[rowCount - 1],
+      }).toEqual({
+        length: rowCount,
+        count: rowCount,
+        first: { n: 1 },
+        last: { n: rowCount },
+      });
+    },
+    // bun:sqlite needs several seconds to build a million row objects in a debug build.
+    isDebug ? 60_000 : 10_000,
+  );
+
   test("handles many columns", async () => {
     const sql = new SQL(":memory:");