[HACKERS] libpq cursor support?

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I was looking at the TODO list today and noticed that we don't seem to have an item for libpq cursor support. I see it's been discussed in the past ( e.g. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2000-09/msg00082.php ). We have occasional reports of libpq apps blowing up on huge

Re: [HACKERS] libpq cursor support?

2007-03-21 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:32:21PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: I was looking at the TODO list today and noticed that we don't seem to have an item for libpq cursor support. I see it's been discussed in the past ( e.g. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2000-09/msg00082.php

Re: [HACKERS] libpq cursor support?

2007-03-21 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was looking at the TODO list today and noticed that we don't seem to have an item for libpq cursor support. I doubt that cursor support is what you want, but rather access to the partial-fetch capability of extended query protocol. But that's an