Re: How to FindNearest

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Alexander Ilyin <a_ilyin(at)ukr(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to FindNearest
Date: 2006-10-03 17:11:25
Message-ID: 20061003171125.GA5744@wolff.to
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 14:43:40 +0300,
Alexander Ilyin <a_ilyin(at)ukr(dot)net> wrote:
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> Thank you for your great idea. But how it can be used for positioning the cursor in the already existed ResultSet? Using your idea I can found the closest to targetvalue row but not its position in my ResultSet.

You wouldn't be able to use it to position a cursor. But if you aren't
retrieving a lot of records at once, this may still be a workable strategy
for you.

> Anyway thank you for your idea it is very useful by itself. Also I can solve my problem using your idea and emulating the movement in my existed ResultSet. Even better - no need to store the large RS between cursor movements. Just each time I need to fetch the all visible rows.

That sounds pretty reasonable.

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