Re: large resultset

No. I need to send 2 million records. I want to know what is the best
possible way to send these records?
HOw should I write the plpgsql procedure to send record ony by one to
improve the response time to the users?

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 15 June 2010 10:40, 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("|", $result) . "\n"; //typo before
>>
>> > }
>> >
>> > pg_close($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, not to mention
>> quite a bit of memory.
>> v.
>>
>>
> I don't understand. Return all data as a single massive string?
>
> Thom
>