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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:03:26 -0500
From: "Timothy H. Keitt" <Timothy.Keitt@StonyBrook.Edu>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Subject: unbuffered results from libpq?
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My impression is that libpq buffers all results of a query.  Is there a 
way to get a "result stream" from the backend instead of having libpq 
read everything into a local buffer first?  Currently, my application, 
after a query, simply copies the entire buffer from the libpq side into 
storage on the application side.  This seems expensive for large 
queries.  I'd rather read results directly into storage on the 
application side, i.e., "while input get next value from backend".  (I 
know about libpqeasy, but this only iterates over the libpq buffer.)

Tim

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Timothy H. Keitt
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State University of New York at Stony Brook
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