Re: large resultset

On 2010-06-15, vinny <vinny(at)xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:33:05 +0100, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>> On 15 June 2010 09:31, AI Rumman wrote:
>> How to return large resutlset (almost 2 millions record) in php?
>>
>> Presumably this is so people can download results rather than display
>> them in a browser?
>>
>> Here's a basic a raw version of what you can do:
>>
>> $db = pg_connect($connection_string);
>>
>> $results = pg_query($db, $query);
>>
>> while ($result = pg_fetch_array($results)
>> {
>>     echo implode("|", $result) . "n";
>> }
>>
>> pg_close($db);
>>
>> Obviously that wouldn't do by itself, but it's quite simple to loop over
>> a result set.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Thom
>>
>
> If that's the case surely you'd use some SQL to merge the data into one
> long string and return it in a single record.
> Looping over two million results is going to take a while,

yeah, so is transmitting the bytes.

> not to mention quite a bit of memory.

yeah, libpq is going to want to load the result-set into memory.
you'll probably hit PHPs memory limit and it'll be game over.

The only pure php solution is to use a cursor. (seing as pg_get_line
is not avaulable)

OTOH you can do copy like this...

$c=escapeshellarg($connstr);
$q=escapeshellarg($query);
system ("psql $c -c 'copy ( '$q' ) to stdout with csv header'");

needs *nix based server and pgversion >= 8.3 (I think).

You don't get to choose the format beyond what pg supports, but I
think you can tweak encoding on the command-line if needed.
OTOH you could use ICONV for that.