Re: [GENERAL] Cursors or Offset, Limit?

2005-11-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:44:32PM -0500, Jerry LeVan wrote: What are some of the tradeoffs between using a cursor and using the limit/offset method of selecting rows to display? OFFSET actually has to scan all the preceding rows every time (plus to get it consistently, you need to do an

[GENERAL] Cursors or Offset, Limit?

2005-11-15 Thread Jerry LeVan
Hi, I am mucking around trying to build a gui'sh table editor for Postgresql. I am currently using a held cursor to move around the table, Since the cursor does not show table modification I am thinking about using the limit and offset attributes to select the rows to display. What are some