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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@barettadeit.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Suspending SELECTs
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:18:07 -0800
Message-ID: <200601171518.07342.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601171459.02398.josh@agliodbs.com>
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People:

To follow up further, what Alessandro is talking about is known as a 
"keyset cursor".   Sybase and SQL Server used to support them; I beleive 
that they were strictly read-only and had weird issues with record 
visibility.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco



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