Re: Default "maximum rows to retrieve" setting

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>
Cc: andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk, PgAdmin Support Mailing List <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Default "maximum rows to retrieve" setting
Date: 2007-03-20 08:27:07
Message-ID: 45FF9ADB.4030500@postgresql.org
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John DeSoi wrote:
> One of the useful things about the frontend/backend protocol
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/protocol.html) is that
> it provides a way to set a value for the maximum number of rows to
> return. This avoids the major hassle of trying to analyze the query and
> figure out how to add a limit clause. Unfortunately, I don't recall
> seeing a way set this using libpq or EXECUTE.

No, I don't believe there is a way - and I'm not sure you can prepare a
statement with more than one query in it either; certainly thats the
case if using PQexecParams.

Regards, Dave.

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