2010/4/24 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>:
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> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Well, you missed the most important part: not using cursors at all.
>> Instead of declaring a cursor and looping it to build the array, build
>> it with array(). That's what I've been saying: arrays can completely
>> displace both temp tables _and_ cursors when passing small sets around
>> functions.
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> with huge emphasis on the word small.
The rule of thumb I use is 10000 narrow records (scalars, or very
small composites) or 1000 wide/complex records. I routinely pass
extremely complex (3-4 levels nesting) nested composite arrays to the
client for processing -- it is extremely efficient and clean. This of
course is going to depend on hardware and other factors.
merlin
