On Apr 6, 2017, at 9:10 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
>>> Why? We could very well return a somewhat "smarter" object. Returning
>>> rows row-by-row if accessed via iterator, materializes when accessed via
>>> row offset.
>>
>> I completely agree with that. What I don't understand is the objection to
>> speeding up the old access method. Or are you thinking we'd just abandon the
>> old method?
>
> What I'm saying is that we can do that transparently, with the current
> API. And there's no need to materialize anything in plpython, we can
> transparently use the SPI materialized version.
Oh, just switching from a list to an iterator. Ok, I finally get it.
