| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yang Zhang <yanghatespam(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL |
| Date: | 2010-02-23 10:17:01 |
| Message-ID: | 407d949e1002230217u43d55ccg9e07f0014532da44@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
>>
>> You can do \set FETCH_COUNT to have psql use a cursor automatically.
>>
>
> It seems like a big win in this case. What would be the downside of having a
> fetch_count set default in psql?
They were mentioned previously in this thread:
1) If an error occurs partway through the execution of the query you
might receive part of the result set.
2) psql won't be able to align the columns properly
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greg
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