Re: I cant find it or I'm just lazy ?

From: Christoph Haller <ch(at)rodos(dot)fzk(dot)de>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: darko(dot)prenosil(at)finteh(dot)hr
Subject: Re: I cant find it or I'm just lazy ?
Date: 2003-02-25 13:04:50
Message-ID: 3E5B69F2.FE6C907F@rodos.fzk.de
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> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:28, Christoph Haller wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:53:05PM +0000, Darko Prenosil wrote:
> > > > I need two answers I did not find in documentation :
> > > > How can I get exact number of rows in DECLARED CURSOR ?
> > > > OK, I can FETCH until NULL, but this does not fits my needs !
> >
> > You may want to use FETCH ALL, otherwise what or your needs in
detail?
> >
> If I use FETCH ALL all, all the data will be sent to client, then why
to use
> CURSOR at all ? I need to reduce network trafic on slow connections !
>
I cannot see how you are going to reduce network traffic by knowing in
advance
how many rows will be returned.
Anyway, you may MOVE until 0 instead of FETCH, or use the COUNT()
function on the query to learn about the number of rows to be returned.

Regards, Christoph

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