Thanks for the explanation. So what sort of changes need to be made to
the client/server protocol to fix this problem?
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:22:15 -0500 (EST), Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Stephen Crowley wrote:
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> > Problem solved.. I set the fetchSize to a reasonable value instead of
> > the default of unlimited in the PreparedStatement and now the query
> > is . After some searching it seeems this is a common problem, would it
> > make sense to change the default value to something other than 0 in
> > the JDBC driver?
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> In the JDBC driver, setting the fetch size to a non-zero value means that
> the query will be run using what the frontend/backend protocol calls a
> named statement. What this means on the backend is that the planner will
> not be able to use the values from the query parameters to generate the
> optimum query plan and must use generic placeholders and create a generic
> plan. For this reason we have decided not to default to a non-zero
> fetch size. This is something whose default value could be set by a URL
> parameter if you think that is something that is really required.
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> Kris Jurka
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