Re: Info about number of tuples if not use FETCH ALL

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:54:07PM +0700, Yusron Hilmy wrote:
> How to get number of tuples if after DECLARE CURSOR, I use FETCH NEXT (not
> FETCH ALL) ?
> PQntuples only work well if I use FETCH ALL.

You can't. The whole purpose of cursors is so that you don't have to wait
for the entire query to complete to get some results. Obviously, to get the
total number of tuples the whole query needs to be run, hence the FETCH ALL.

Do you really need to know the number of tuples beforehand, or is it ok to
wait till the end?

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