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Re: FETCH in subqueries or CTEs

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Craig Ringer <ringerc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I didn't find a reasonable way to simply fetch a cursor into a (possibly 
> temporary) table, like:
> INSERT INTO sometable FETCH ALL FROM somecursor;

Why would you bother with a cursor, and not just INSERT ... SELECT
using the original query?

Putting a cursor in between will just make matters more complicated and
slower.  (For one thing, the plan created for a cursor is optimized for
incremental fetching not read-it-all-at-once.)

			regards, tom lane


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