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Re: Large tables, ORDER BY and sequence/index scans

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2010/1/5 Milan Zamazal <pdm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Cursors are very convenient for me, because they allow easy browsing
> data in the user interface (fetching limited sets of rows while seeking
> forward and backward) and they prevent contingent seeking and other
> troubles when concurrent updates happen.
>

Sounds to me like a borked app design. Do you seriously need to walk
the user through couple of million rows of data ?

I mean, databases are designed to work on data, and give you the
result back. Use this capability intelligently.


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GJ

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