| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gerrit van Dyk <gvandyk(at)agileworks(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Python setof patch |
| Date: | 2005-07-05 17:51:55 |
| Message-ID: | 42CAC8BB.4000206@dunslane.net |
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Michael Fuhr wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:14:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>
>>Aside from minor problems like being broken and undocumented, there is a
>>more serious question here: is this even the functionality we want?
>>
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>
>I'd rather see something akin to PL/pgSQL's RETURN NEXT or PL/Perl's
>return_next.
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>
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Agreed. My rudimentary testing shows that plperl's shiny new return_next
functionality not only avoids memory blowup but has a 40% speed
improvement over the old 'return the lot at once' API.
cheers
andrew
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