Sorry, copied to list.
On 8/11/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 3. Throw an error (thereby rolling back the incomplete update)
> if client closes the portal without having run it to completion.
Sounds like the most reasonable considering. I'm not averse to it.
> 4. Treat PORTAL_ONE_RETURNING like PORTAL_UTIL_SELECT rather than
> like PORTAL_ONE_SELECT; that is, execute the query to completion
> on first call and stash the results in a tuplestore until the
> client fetches them.
I agree that it's inefficient, but am trying to think of any other
positive reasons for doing #4 instead. Can you think of any other
advantages system-wide to using #4 instead of #3?
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