Re: Cursor support in pl/pg

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
>
> >     IIRC  the  patch  only  provides  the  syntax  for  CURSOR to
> >     PL/pgSQL. Not real cursor support on the SPI level.  So  it's
> >     still the same as before, the backend will try to suck up the
> >     entire resultset into the SPI tuple table (that's memory) and
> >     die if it's huge enough.
> >
> >     What  we  really need is an improvement to the SPI manager to
> >     support cursor (or cursor  like  behaviour  through  repeated
> >     executor calls).
>
> Agreed, but as I may have said before, 1) the problem you describe
> already exists in PL/pgSQL when using the FOR x IN SELECT statement,
> 2) the PL/pgSQL cursor patch is useful without the improvement to the
> SPI layer, 3) I would argue that the PL/pgSQL cursor patch is still
> needed after the SPI layer is improved.
>
> So I do not think that is a valid argument against installing the
> PL/pgSQL cursor patch.
   I  don't  object if we can be sure that it's implementing the   syntax a final version with *real* cursor support
will have.   Can we?
 


Jan

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