Re: [patch] libpq one-row-at-a-time API - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So if we give only PQgetResult() in 9.2, I do not see that we
>> are locked out from any interesting optimizations.
>
> Well, you are locked out of having PQgetResult reuse the conn's result
> since that would then introduce potentially breaking changes to user
> code.

You can specify special flags to PQsend or have special PQgetResultWeird()
calls to get PGresults with unusual behavior.  Like I did with PQgetRowData().

I see no reason here to reject PQgetResult() that returns normal PGresult.

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marko