From: David Rysdam <drysdam@ll.mit.edu>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Not clear on what PQgetResult does
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:01:52 -0500
Message-ID: <437CE1B0.3040001@ll.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451.1132256298@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <437CD359.5080908@ll.mit.edu>
<451.1132256298@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane wrote:
>David Rysdam <drysdam@ll.mit.edu> writes:
>
>
>>I don't understand in what sense PQgetResult is asynchronous.
>>
>>
>
>It isn't. You can use it in an asynchronous client, but the way you do
>that is by not calling it until PQisBusy says you can (which means the
>whole result has arrived, and you're just calling PQgetResult to get
>hold of it).
>
So there's no way to have libpq return partial results before they are
all ready?
If I may, I would like to express some degree of incredulity. Even the
version of Sybase I'm using does this right and it's from 1997!
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