Re: number of rown in a cursor.

> yep.  This is because one of the advantages of a cursor is that it only
> runs partially and returns the first X rows for the fetch.  This keeps
> load down so that many cursors hitting the machine at once don't all
> materialize all their rows and chew up all that I/O, cpu, and memory.
> Unfortunately, one of the side effects of this methodology is that no
> one knows how many rows there really are until they've been fetched.

the thing is that i want to create a gui-widget that has the possibility
to show a large amount of data over a slow connection. My idea was that
i create a cursor and create a srollbar with the number of rows in the
cursor so the user can scroll and only fetch the rows displayed from the
cursor as the user releases the scrollbar.

If i understand right then the way to do this is: create the cursor,
move to the end to get the number of rows, move to the front. get data.
am i right? or is there a better way to achieve this ? perhaps with a
local view?