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From: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: libpq simple SELECT
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:22:57 -0800
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David,,

On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM David G. Johnston
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, December 17, 2025, Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I hope now my question is clear. I want to know if using CURSR
>> is a must.
>
>
> No it is not.  But there isn’t an example of doing so without a cursor because it is deemed trivial enough that a competent C writer can figure it out.  In particular, it basically is just the same code as the “fetch” portion of the example, but the select command is supplied instead of a fetch command.  Both of those SQL commands result is tuples being generated.

So what do I do after calling PQexec()? And why is my code running only once?

Thank you.

>
> David J.
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