Johannes <jotpe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> What the reason to execute all statements which return different >> columns at once? >> >>> Saving roundtrips, >> >> In most cases they are not so big. Getting a bunch of duplicated data >> is wasting you network bandwidth and don't increase speed. > > In my and your example no duplicated data (result sets) is send over the > network. The server do not need to wait until the client snips out the > id and sends it id in the next query again. So the server can compute > the result set without external dependencies as fast as possible. Sounds like what you're really after is a stored procedure, isn't it? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general