Re: [PERFORM] psql -A (unaligned format) eats too much

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor(at)dunaweb(dot)hu>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] psql -A (unaligned format) eats too much
Date: 2006-06-05 18:10:24
Message-ID: 21820.1149531024@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 19:17 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
>> The general case cannot be applied for all particular cases.
>> E.g. you cannot use cursors from shell scripts

> This could be fixed by adding an option to psql to transparently produce
> SELECT result sets via a cursor.

Note of course that such a thing would push the incomplete-result
problem further upstream. For instance in (hypothetical --cursor
switch)
psql --cursor -c "select ..." | myprogram
there would be no very good way for myprogram to find out that it'd
been sent an incomplete result due to error partway through the SELECT.

regards, tom lane

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