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Re: cursor MOVE vs OFFSET in SELECT

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2009/10/26 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM, silly8888 <silly8888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Suppose that you have a query, say $sql_query, which is very
>> complicated and produces many rows. Which of the following is going to
>> be faser:
>>
>>    $sql_query OFFSET 3000 LIMIT 12;
>>
>> or
>>
>>    BEGIN;
>>    DECLARE cur1 CURSOR FOR $sql_query;
>>    MOVE 3000 IN cur1;
>>    FETCH 12 FROM cur1;
>>    COMMIT;
>>
>> Naturally, the former cannot be slower than the latter. So my question
>> essentially is whether the MOVE operation on a cursor is
>> (significantly) slower that a OFFSET on the SELECT.
>
>
> OFFSET/LIMIT. Afaik cursor always fetches everything.

Well, in my experiments they always perform the same. I suspect that
the way SELECT/OFFSET is implemented is not much different than
cursor/MOVE.

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