Re: Query size?

From: imad <immaad(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Paul Tomblin" <ptomblin(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Query size?
Date: 2008-06-22 12:23:36
Message-ID: 1f30b80c0806220523n6a7472a5x876d1afc6ee7f7a7@mail.gmail.com
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Why dont you adopt a pro-active aproach here and append a LIMIT to
every query you send to the server?
You can do an OFFSET LIMIT combination of all queries until you get
results less than LIMIT.

--Imad

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Paul Tomblin <ptomblin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm working with another developer to produce an iPhone app - he's writing
> the app and I'm writing the server that provides the data to it. One of the
> queries he's doing might produce hundreds or thousands of results, and he
> doesn't want me sending that much data.
>
> So I'm wondering if there is a simple way to determine if a query is going
> to produce a result of more than N rows? Is the only way to do a "select
> count(*)" query first, or there something in the ResultSet that tells me how
> many results are queued up?
>
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