Re: Suspending SELECTs

mark@mark.mielke.cc wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:56:00PM +0100, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
>
>>I understand most of these issues, and expected this kind of reply. Please,
>>allow me to insist that we reason on this problem and try to find a
>>solution. My reason for doing so is that the future software industry is
>>likely to see more and more web applications retrieving data from virtually
>>endless databases, and in such contexts, it is sensible to ask the final
>>client--the web client--to store the "cursor state", because web
>>interaction is intrinsically asynchronous, and you cannot count on users
>>logging out when they're done, releasing resources allocated to them. Think
>>of Google.
>
>
> What is wrong with LIMIT and OFFSET? I assume your results are ordered
> in some manner.

It looks like this is the only possible solution at present--and in the future,
too--but it has a tremendouse performance impact on queries returning thousands
of rows.

Alex

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