2010/7/20 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>:
> 2010/7/14 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:
>> please, can you refresh patch, please?
>
> Updated patch attached. The latest version is always in the git repo.
> http://repo.or.cz/w/pgsql-fdw.git (branch: fdw)
> I'm developing the patch on postgres' git repo. So, regression test
> for dblink might fail because of out-of-sync issue between cvs and git.
>
>> When I looked to documentation I miss a some tutorial for foreign
>> tables. There are only reference. I miss some paragraph where is
>> cleanly and simple specified what is possible now and whot isn't
>> possible. Enhancing of dblink isn't documented
>
> Sure. I'll start to write documentation when we agree the design of FDW.
>
>> In function pgIterate(ForeignScanState *scanstate) you are iterare
>> via pg result. I am thinking so using a cursor and fetching multiple
>> rows should be preferable.
>
> Sure, but I'm thinking that it will be improved after libpq supports
> protocol-level cursor. The libpq improvement will be applied
> much more applications including postgresql_fdw.
>
is there some time frame for this task - or ToDo point? Minimally it
has to be documented, because it can be a issue on larger sets -
speed, memory usage. I am afraid about speed for queries like
select * from large_dblink_tab limit 100;
Regards
Pavel
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> Itagaki Takahiro
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