On 2017-04-06 09:14:43 -0700, Jim Nasby wrote: > On 4/6/17 9:04 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On 4/6/17 03:50, Craig Ringer wrote: > > > But otherwise, pending docs changes, I think it's ready for committer. > > > > My opinion is still that this is ultimately the wrong approach. The > > right fix for performance issues in PL/Python is to change PL/Python not > > to materialize the list of tuples. Now with this change we would be > > moving from two result materializations to one, but I think we are > > keeping the wrong one. > > That's an option for future improvement, but I see no way to accomplish that > without completely breaking plpy.
Why? We could very well return a somewhat "smarter" object. Returning rows row-by-row if accessed via iterator, materializes when accessed via row offset. - Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers