"Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/11/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 4. Treat PORTAL_ONE_RETURNING like PORTAL_UTIL_SELECT rather than >> like PORTAL_ONE_SELECT; that is, execute the query to completion >> on first call and stash the results in a tuplestore until the >> client fetches them.
> I agree that it's inefficient, but am trying to think of any other > positive reasons for doing #4 instead. Can you think of any other > advantages system-wide to using #4 instead of #3? Not really. Locks and so forth held by the query would be held till commit in any case, so I don't see much advantage in finishing the query immediately. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly