Re: Another feature request...
[email protected] (Adam Kennedy) Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:36:31 +1100
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>> > Does that explain much, or would something "practical" be better? >>I would be interested in a real example of where this is useful. I'd >>also like to know if any database in existance supports this, or plans to. > > > It is useful at least wherever lazy access to multiple result sets would > be useful. To be honest co-routines are one of those things that until > you see how simple they make some problems, you don't understand why > they are useful. Right... hence why I'd like to see one of these real examples :) > Oracle seems to support multiple concurrent selects operating as if they > were all read-only cursors. Pg, etc, can support this behaviour with > explicit cursors. Would this be multiple selects against a single statement handler?