Re: Scrollable cursors and Sort performance

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Scrollable cursors and Sort performance
Date: 2006-02-10 19:04:29
Message-ID: 509.1139598269@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Not everybody gets the chance to change the SQL in an application
> program, however much they might want to and know they should. Third
> party software is most software.

Right. You are proposing to *break* some applications in order to
make other ones faster. How popular do you think you will be?

regards, tom lane

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