scrollable cursor support without MOVE statement

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Pavel Stehule wrote:

This is the most recent email I have on this. Was the scrollable patch
applied? If not, would you resubmit?

I resubmit scrollable cursor patch

Regards
Pavel Stehule

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On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:42 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:

This is the most recent email I have on this. Was the scrollable patch
applied? If not, would you resubmit?

I resubmit scrollable cursor patch

I notice your patch has been accepted, though admit I hadn't noticed it
previously.

Can I ask a question relating to the patch?
How is the scrollability determined?

Scrollable cursors and sorts don't mix very well in terms of
performance, as you may know. Previously, since NOSCROLL was the only
option, this wasn't a problem. Now that we have scrollable cursors, it
is an issue, since according to the doc change the scrollability default
is neither scroll nor noscroll.

I'm concerned that many PL/pgSQL routines will now run slower because
they may now be considered scrollable when they previously were not. How
is the scrollability determined? Do we look at the kids of FETCH being
used to determine whether we need scrolling? (which would be great) Or
will we have to manually change all existing PL/pgSQL code so that it is
definitely NOSCROLL? (which would be unacceptable). Or?

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"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

I'm concerned that many PL/pgSQL routines will now run slower because
they may now be considered scrollable when they previously were not.

There is no change in the default behavior.

regards, tom lane

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 18:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

I'm concerned that many PL/pgSQL routines will now run slower because
they may now be considered scrollable when they previously were not.

There is no change in the default behavior.

Previously:
- PL/pgSQL cursors were non-scrollable
- DECLARE CURSOR cursors were not non-scrollable by default

The new docs say it is "query dependent", whereas previously the default
was non-scrollable. That sounds like a change in the default behaviour,
so I'm trying to dig a little deeper.

Are you saying that if I don't say anything at all then a cursor will be
non-scrollable?

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"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 18:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

There is no change in the default behavior.

Previously:
- PL/pgSQL cursors were non-scrollable
- DECLARE CURSOR cursors were not non-scrollable by default

No, they weren't "non-scrollable", they were the same as the default
case for DECLARE CURSOR. You just couldn't tell (from within plpgsql
anyway) for lack of any form of FETCH that would exercise backward
motion.

The actual code behavior is, and has been for a long time,

SCROLL -> if plan doesn't handle backwards scan, stick a Materialize
node atop it so it can.

NO SCROLL -> do nothing to plan. In pquery.c, throw error if an attempt
is made to fetch backwards.

default -> if plan doesn't handle backwards scan, use NO SCROLL behavior.
If it does, silently allow scrolling.

The previous state of affairs was that plpgsql had no way to specify
SCROLL or NO SCROLL and so always got the default behavior. Now it
does, but the default behavior is still the same.

regards, tom lane

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:42 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:

This is the most recent email I have on this. Was the scrollable patch
applied? If not, would you resubmit?

I resubmit scrollable cursor patch

I notice your patch has been accepted, though admit I hadn't noticed it
previously.

I resubmited this patch because Bruce removed it from queue instead of GUC
protection patch

Can I ask a question relating to the patch?
How is the scrollability determined?

Scrollable cursors and sorts don't mix very well in terms of
performance, as you may know. Previously, since NOSCROLL was the only
option, this wasn't a problem. Now that we have scrollable cursors, it
is an issue, since according to the doc change the scrollability default
is neither scroll nor noscroll.

default is noscroll

I'm concerned that many PL/pgSQL routines will now run slower because
they may now be considered scrollable when they previously were not. How
is the scrollability determined? Do we look at the kids of FETCH being
used to determine whether we need scrolling? (which would be great) Or
will we have to manually change all existing PL/pgSQL code so that it is
definitely NOSCROLL? (which would be unacceptable). Or?

default is without changes on functionality.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

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On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 18:56 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

the default behavior is still the same

Just had time to check this. You're right, my mistake.

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