Re: about client-side cursors

Christophe Pettus a écrit :
> > On Feb 4, 2021, at 03:16, Denis Laxalde <denis(dot)laxalde(at)dalibo(dot)com> wrote:
> > But, unless I missed it, the PEP does not state how to implement query
> > execution and result fetch operations if the database does not need a
> > cursor.
>
> First, any change like this would have to maintain their current API
> essentially forever, unless psycopg3 represents a completely
> incompatible break with the psycopg2 interface. There is an enormous
> body of code out there that uses the current cursor() interface for
> client-side cursors.

Sure, that's a valid point. But maintaining this backwards compatibility
does not mean we can't hide the details and advertise a cleaner API for
newcomers or people willing to migrate.

> Second, it would be very unwise to make guarantees about when these
> operations interact with the database. I think that any client
> application should expect that both cursor.execute() and
> cursor.fetchone()/.fetchall() are asynchronous operations, and code
> appropriately.

If "cursor" is a real database cursor, I agree.