Re: Incremental results from libpq

From: Frank van Vugt <ftm(dot)van(dot)vugt(at)foxi(dot)nl>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Incremental results from libpq
Date: 2005-11-10 20:33:20
Message-ID: 200511102133.20904.ftm.van.vugt@foxi.nl
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> > If I'm informed correctly then Oracle and others are generating
> > the complete static result set on the server-side, which will then
> > stay cached until all rows/chunks are fetched.

> That's obviously not true. Try doing "select * from huge_table" on Oracle
> and you'll see records start appearing immediately.

Then it seems I haven't (been informed correctly) :)

Now, given that OCI is offering some kind of asynchronous interface as well,
how are they handling an error occuring after a partial result-set has been
retrieved by the client?

--
Best,

Frank.

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