AW: LIMIT in DECLARE CURSOR: request for comments

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Philip Warner'" <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: AW: LIMIT in DECLARE CURSOR: request for comments
Date: 2000-10-31 13:14:15
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA6879633680D9@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> >So I think if you want to make optimization decisions based on cursors
> >being used versus a "normal" select, then the only thing you can safely
> >take into account is the network roundtrip and client processing per
> >fetch, but that might be as random as anything.
>
> Which is why I like the client being able to ask the
> optimizer for certain kinds of solutions *explicitly*.

Yes, something like:
set optimization to [first_rows|all_rows]

Andreas

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