Re: updateable cursors & visibility

Hiroshi Inoue kirjutas E, 31.03.2003 kell 19:08:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu(at)tm(dot)ee]
> >
> > Hiroshi Inoue kirjutas E, 31.03.2003 kell 03:40:
> >
> > > 2) dynamic
> > > It can detect any changes made to the membership, order,
> > > and values of the result set after the cursor is opened.
> >
> > What would it mean in practice, i.e. if you are on the first
> > row in the
> > cursor and then update tha ORDER BY field so that your row becomes the
> > last one, will the next FETCH move the cursor past end ?
>
> No. The row next to the old first row would be FETCHed.

In what way would the _changes_made_to_the_order_ be reflected then ?

> > what happens, if the row you are on is removed from the keyset, either
> > by current or any other backend ?
>
> The dynamic cursor doesn't see the row any longer.

It seems to be doable with MVCC - "just" ;) check for visibility of
underlying tuples at each fetch. At least it does not seem any harder
for MVCC than for other CC methods.

>
> > > 3) keyset-driven
> > > It always detects changes to the values of rows.
> >
> > What about _new_ rows,
>
> It never detects new rows.

Then I must have misunderstood the "can detect any changes made to the
membership, order, and values" part. I assumed that "any changes" wold
also include rows that magically become part of the query by either
changes in values or being inserted.

> > or rows that no more belong to the "keyset" ?
>
> They are the same as deleted ones.

So they are no more visible to cursor ?

> > >From your short description it is not even clear for me how *exactly*
> > should they behave.
>
> I only intended to illustrate various type of visibilities roughly
> because
> there were no such reference in this thread.
>
> regards,
> Hiroshi Inoue
>
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