Re: psql's FETCH_COUNT (cursor) is not being respected for CTEs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jakub Wartak <jakub(dot)wartak(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: psql's FETCH_COUNT (cursor) is not being respected for CTEs
Date: 2024-04-08 15:08:24
Message-ID: 3275590.1712588904@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Now that ExecQueryUsingCursor() is gone, it's not clear, what does
> the following comment mean:?
>    * We must turn off gexec_flag to avoid infinite recursion.  Note that
>    * this allows ExecQueryUsingCursor to be applied to the individual query
>    * results.

Hmm, the point about recursion is still valid isn't it? I agree the
reference to ExecQueryUsingCursor is obsolete, but I think we need to
reconstruct what this comment is actually talking about. It's
certainly pretty obscure ...

regards, tom lane

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