Re: fastest way to retrieve data

thanks chris. a colleague of mine is having a hard time with her
queries. they usually take a long time to load. she's doing a lot
of complicated queries across multiple tables and return them
to HTML tables. do you have other tips to speed things up?
thank you very much for the help.

ric

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> Remember that looping over a result set doesn't require a 'connection' to
> the server, the result is cached in the libpq library space...
>
> Also, building an array will mean it will suck down heaps of extra RAM.  I
> suggest that you don't actually have a problem, and doing it the way you're
> currently doing it is the fastest way.
>
> Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-php-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-php-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Ric Mañalac
> > Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 11:25 AM
> > To: pgsql-php@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [PHP] fastest way to retrieve data
> > Importance: High
> >
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > is there a faster way to retrieve data from postgresql
> > using php aside from the conventional way of looping
> > through the number of records returned by pg_num_rows
> > then executing pg_fetch_row on each iteration? isn't it
> > possible to get the entire result set returned by pg_exec
> > and save that to a multi-dimensional array? this way
> > the program can disconnect from the db and just get
> > the data from the multi-dimensional array. this would also
> > shorten the number of requests to postgresql.
> >
> > would appreaciate any suggestions. thanks!
> >
> > regards,
> >
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