OK,

Thank you for the explanation, I hope this will be implemented in future.
We will try and find a workaround to this issue until then.

Denis


----- Original Message ----- From: "Heikki Linnakangas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "dv @ nabble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers list" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] SRF in SFRM_ValuePerCall mode


dv @ nabble wrote:
I am working on implementation of custom "C" SRF for our team. The SRF
uses
SFRM_ValuePerCall mode. I know that sometimes even in SFRM_ValuePerCall
mode
all the rows returned from SRF are "materialized" (for performing JOINs,
for
example).

Yep, they are unfortunately always materialized. Back when set returning
functions were implemented, the original patch did actually support true
"value per call" mode, where the whole result set was not materialized.
However, it was dropped because of some issues I can't remember off the
top of my head. The value-per-call API was committed, so that it was
already in place when someone gets around to implement the backend support
for it.

However, no-one has bothered to do that to this date. Hannu Krosing showed
some interest in it recently, though:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00345.php. I would
love to see it happen.

--
  Heikki Linnakangas
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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