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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>
Cc: Pavel Golub <pavel@gf.microolap.com>
Cc: Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PQdeleteTuple function in libpq
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:02:08 -0400
Message-ID: <1307026778-sup-415@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
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Excerpts from Andrew Chernow's message of jue jun 02 10:12:40 -0400 2011:

> > Andrew, why we have PQmakeEmptyPGresult, PQcopyResult,
> > PQsetResultAttrs, PQsetvalue and PQresultAlloc in this case? Of course
> > there's no big deal with their absence but let's be consistent.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do, but can't you use 
> PQmakeEmptyPGresult, PQsetResultAttrs and PQsetvalue to construct a 
> result that excludes the tuples you don't want followed by a 
> PQclear(initial_result)?

Seems pretty wasteful if you want to delete a single tuple from a large
result.  I think if you desired to compact the result to free some
memory after deleting a large fraction of the tuples in the result it
could be useful to do that, otherwise just live with the unused holes in
the storage area as suggested by Pavel.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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