Re: [patch] libpq one-row-at-a-time API

Here is 2 approaches how to get to state where only PQsetSingleRowMode()
is available. Both on top of REL9_2_STABLE branch.

a) Remove callback hooks, keep rowBuf, implement single-row-mode on
top of that. This was posted before, I just additionally removed
the PQgetRowData() function.

git pull git://github.com/markokr/postgres.git single-row-mode1
https://github.com/markokr/postgres/commits/single-row-mode1

Commits:
libpq: Single-row based processing
libpq, dblink: Remove row processor API

Advantage: makes easier to play with PQgetRowData() or potatial
faster PGresult creation methods. Smaller change compared to
libpq from 9.2beta than b).

b) Revert row-callback changes completely, implement single-row-mode on
top of virgin libpq. Only problem here was keeping fixes implemented
as part of row-callback patch. Single-row-mode itself is quite simple.

git pull git://github.com/markokr/postgres.git single-row-mode1
https://github.com/markokr/postgres/commits/single-row-mode1

Feature patch:
https://github.com/markokr/postgres/commit/b5e822125c655f189875401c61317242705143b9

Commits:
dblink: revert conversion to row processor API patch
libpq: revert row processor API patch
libpq: random fixes
libpq: single-row mode
dblink: use single-row-mode

Advantage: smaller change compared to libpq from 9.1 than a).

As the patch has suffered a lot from trying to provide both macro- and
micro-optimization (on-the-fly row processing vs. more efficient row
processing), maybe b) is safer choice for 9.2?

In case somebody wants to look at the patches without git (or web),
I attaches them as tgz too.

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marko