Re: [SQL] MINUS and slow 'not in'

From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il>
To: pierre(at)desertmoon(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] MINUS and slow 'not in'
Date: 1998-11-24 15:08:28
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At 16:57 +0200 on 24/11/98, pierre(at)desertmoon(dot)com wrote:

> I've tried...
>
> insert into B
> fetch 2000 from fubar;
>
> Which just gives a parser error. There is very little documentation on
> cursors written up that I can find. I've even searched the email archives.
> Ideas?

Well, this usage of a cursor is not supported, as far as I know. However,
if you have 6.4 (do you?), you can use SET QUERY_LIMIT to limit the number
of rows fetched from the SELECT. I suppose you can set it back after you do
the INSERT.

Herouth

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