"Abhijit Menon-Sen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Interleaved retrieval using multiple portals is not what most >> libraries support, I'd guess. > > My code did support that mode of operation in theory, but in practice > in the few situations where I have needed to use something like it, I > found it more convenient to open explicit cursors and FETCH from them
Note that using FETCH for each record means a round trip to the server for each record. If you're dealing with a lot of records that could be a lot slower than streaming them to the client as quickly as it can consume them. Now I'm not sure anyone's actually done any experiments to optimize libpq or other drivers to stream data efficiently, so I'm not sure how much you would really lose in practice today. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's On-Demand Production Tuning -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
