Re: psql's FETCH_COUNT (cursor) is not being respected for CTEs

"Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org> writes:
>     Tom Lane wrote:
>> I do not buy that psql's FETCH_COUNT mode is a sufficient reason
>> to add it.  FETCH_COUNT mode is not something you'd use
>> non-interactively

> I should say that I've noticed significant latency improvements with
> FETCH_COUNT retrieving large resultsets, such that it would benefit
> non-interactive use cases.

Do you have a theory for why that is?  It's pretty counterintuitive
that it would help at all.

            regards, tom lane