Frank van Vugt <ftm.van.vugt@foxi.nl> writes:
> I'm wondering, what kind of failure do you have in mind, here? If I'm informed
> correctly then Oracle and others are generating the complete static result
> set on the server-side, which will then stay cached until all rows/chunks are
> fetched.
That's obviously not true. Try doing "select * from huge_table" on Oracle and
you'll see records start appearing immediately. There are applications where
huge_table could occupy hundreds of gigabytes (or petabytes) and requiring all
queries to create copies of all their result sets before proceeding would make
lots of important applications entirely infeasible.
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greg