Re: Suspending SELECTs

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Alessandro Baretta <a(dot)baretta(at)barettadeit(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Suspending SELECTs
Date: 2006-01-17 23:18:07
Message-ID: 200601171518.07342.josh@agliodbs.com
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To follow up further, what Alessandro is talking about is known as a
"keyset cursor". Sybase and SQL Server used to support them; I beleive
that they were strictly read-only and had weird issues with record
visibility.

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--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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