On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 11:44 -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:32:02AM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > I think the point that Martijn was trying to make was that per our docs > > it would be perfectly acceptable for us to make any cursor NO SCROLL > > implicitly if it means less work for the optimizer. > > Ok, I take that back. The actual quote[1] is: > > "Depending upon the complexity of the query's execution plan, specifying > SCROLL may impose a performance penalty on the query's execution time." > > Clearly that says it can affect execution time, not that we're free to > alter the default behavior at will. > > But speaking of documentation, it doesn't actually say what the default > is. Care update that, or should I formally submit a patch? > > [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-declare.html
Why do that ahead of me making the suggested changes? Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
