On 2/4/15 12:17 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2015-02-03 12:26:33 +0100, Shay Rojansky wrote:
>>> find a way to execute a query but without fetching any rows. The Execute
>>> message has a maximum result-row count, but zero is documented to mean
>>> "fetch all rows".
>
>> Is this really a relevant optimization? If the user doesn't want
>
> I believe he's talking about the network protocol of postgreSQL, not
> about query optimisation (as you do).
I don't believe so. If this is not about optimization, why can't the
driver just ignore the rows from the server?
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