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Mastering PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition
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Mastering PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
470 pages
11h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using cursors to fetch data in chunks

If you execute SQL, the database will calculate the result and send it to your application. Once the entire result set has been sent to the client, the application can continue doing its job. The problem is this: what happens if the result set is so large that it doesn't fit into the memory anymore? What if the database returns 10 billion rows? The client application usually cannot handle so much data at once, and actually, it shouldn't. The solution to this problem is a cursor. The idea behind a cursor is that data is generated only when it is needed (when FETCH is called). Therefore, the application can already start to consume data while it is actually being generated by the database. On top of that, ...

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