Обсуждение: Retrieve all the returned rows in one call
I am right now using the libpq interface and struggling with efficiently retrieve the result from a query. Let's say I run a select statement with some where clauses and then retrieve the result into a PGresult. I want to know if there is an efficient way to retrieve all the rows at once? I am going to return a char*** from my function, i.e. a two-dimensional array of char pointers. I have seen the COPY sql command, but up to v8.1 i cannot use a select statement with it, the only way to customize COPY is to choose which columns to return, but still, the only option is to return the whole table. Furthermore, when using PQgetCopyData I get the whole row at once, but I still have to loop through all rows. I have also seen in the PGresult structure that it has a member called tuples, which is a two-dimensional array of the structure PGresAttValue. This is a way to recieve all the data at once, but it is in a format which is specific for PostgreSQL and I am developing a database interface including other databases two, so I want to use a general structure returned from the function, i.e. a char***. This means that I would have to loop through the tuples array to convert into the char array structure, and hence lose the whole meaning with recieving all the rows at once. So my question is if it is possible in any way to retrieve the result in the form of char***? _________________________________________________________________ Gör karriär! http://monster.msn.se/
On Monday 09 October 2006 10:58, Andreas Gidlund wrote: > I am right now using the libpq interface and struggling with efficiently > retrieve the result from a query. > > Let's say I run a select statement with some where clauses and then > retrieve the result into a PGresult. I want to know if there is an > efficient way to retrieve all the rows at once? I am going to return a > char*** from my function, i.e. a two-dimensional array of char pointers. > I have seen the COPY sql command, but up to v8.1 i cannot use a select > statement with it, the only way to customize COPY is to choose which > columns to return, but still, the only option is to return the whole table. > Furthermore, when using PQgetCopyData I get the whole row at once, but I > still have to loop through all rows. > I have also seen in the PGresult structure that it has a member called > tuples, which is a two-dimensional array of the structure PGresAttValue. > This is a way to recieve all the data at once, but it is in a format which > is specific for PostgreSQL and I am developing a database interface > including other databases two, so I want to use a general structure > returned from the function, i.e. a char***. This means that I would have to > loop through the tuples array to convert into the char array structure, and > hence lose the whole meaning with recieving all the rows at once. > > So my question is if it is possible in any way to retrieve the result in > the form of char***? I think the answer is no. Sean