Re: [patch] libpq one-row-at-a-time API

Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm starting to look at this patch now.  I think we could drop the
>> PQgetRowData() API: it complicates matters for little gain that I can
>> see.  The argument for it was to avoid the cost of creating a PGresult
>> per row, but we're already going to pay the cost of creating a
>> PGresult in order to return the PGRES_SINGLE_TUPLE status.

> No.  Please look again, it is supposed to be called instead of PGgetResult().

Mm.  I still think we should drop it, because it's still a dangerous API
that's not necessary for the principal benefit of this feature.

			regards, tom lane