long nroff tables

[James K. Lowden]

How do I show "infinite" tables in nroff?  When the tbl output doesn't
fit on one "page", I get: 

$ nroff -t foo 
error: page 2: table will not fit on one page; use .TS H/.TH with a
supporting macro package

I don't understand how man/mdoc arrange for nroff to display one long
page (e.g., for "man bash").  I guess it's something the man system
does when groff is invoked.  

For my purpose, I'm displaying SQL output.  I don't particularly want
to use any macro package; just tbl is enough to get nicely word-wrapped
wide columns.  

--jk