Re: libpq custom row processing

On 07/08/12 13:41, Marko Kreen wrote:
> Same thing happens when you fetch the result in transaction
> and later query fails with error thus invalidating earlier
> processing. So nothing new.
>
> Or how about FETCH 100 from cursor in transaction,
> and first few succeed and later one fails.
>
> It's up to user code to handle such cases correctly
> and "correct" here depends on actual business logic
> of the transaction.
>
> The warning is there because there is now new
> failure scenario, but not because the failure
> needs any kind of special handling.

I don't agree. Simple code like:

curs.execute("SELECT * FROM xs")
for x in curs.fetchall():
# do something like writing to the file system with x

will have a different effect if row-by-row processing is enabled. Before
nothing would be changed on the file system in case of error: the
fetchall() is "atomic"; while now you write to the file system until the
row that causes the error is processed.

federico

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