Re: show() function - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: show() function
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Msg-id 3D1A959D.4020303@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: show() function  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> My take is that the proposed SRF API includes a count field that the
> function may use *if it wants to* to store a termination condition.
> If not, fine: detect termination however you want.  But the availability
> of the field simplifies one common coding pattern, without creating any
> noticeable overhead for functions that want to do it differently.
>
> If that wasn't what either of you meant, I'll skulk away quietly...
>

Right on target from my side ;-)

Joe




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