Re: Not clear on what PQgetResult does

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: David Rysdam <drysdam(at)ll(dot)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Not clear on what PQgetResult does
Date: 2005-11-17 20:40:34
Message-ID: 437CEAC2.6050001@commandprompt.com
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>>
>> It isn't. You can use it in an asynchronous client, but the way you do
>> that is by not calling it until PQisBusy says you can (which means the
>> whole result has arrived, and you're just calling PQgetResult to get
>> hold of it).
>>
> So there's no way to have libpq return partial results before they are
> all ready?
>
> If I may, I would like to express some degree of incredulity. Even
> the version of Sybase I'm using does this right and it's from 1997!
I am sure we would welcome a patch ;))

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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