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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: David Rysdam <drysdam@ll.mit.edu>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Not clear on what PQgetResult does
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:40:34 -0800
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>
>>
>> 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!
I am sure we would welcome a patch ;))

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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