Re: pg_fetch_array

From: George Essig <george_essig(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Thanks(at)verymuch(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_fetch_array
Date: 2004-06-21 21:09:21
Message-ID: 20040621210921.47715.qmail@web53702.mail.yahoo.com
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Thanks(at)verymuch(dot)com wrote:

> Does php need to read database everytime when pg_fetch_array is executed in
> the while loop or all the rows have been in the memory after pg_query?

The latter - pg_query puts all of the rows in memory. I found this out myself recently. Select a
lot of rows using pg_query without pg_fetch_array. As you're doing this, watch he memory usage
with 'free -s 1'.

George Essig

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