On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 3:19 AM, Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> wrote:
> [quote]
> PQntuples
>
> Returns the number of rows (tuples) in the query result. Because it
> returns an integer result, large result sets might overflow the return
> value on 32-bit operating systems.
>
> int PQntuples(const PGresult *res);
> [/quote]
>
> Is there another way to not to overflow the result?
Not really with the existing API. Note that getting at 2 billion rows
is really a lot, and would cause performance issues on the application
side because a bunch of data would need to be processed, and getting
out this much data is not network-wise anyway.
--
Michael