UPDATE: This is what happens when you're out sick for nearly two weeks. Your brain goes to mush. A simple thing: create a Tie::Array subclass. head*desk

I have a bunch of legacy code that requires an array of arrayrefs. Basically:

  1. array ref to a result set
  2. another result set
  3. ...

For relatively small sets of data, this works quite well. However, it throws everything into memory. :( There are hundreds of scripts that rely on this array+arrayref structure so changing the scripts are impractical.

fetchall_arrayref() allows you to retrieve X many rows at a time. I'm thinking of something that behaves like an array but uses an iterator internally. Basically a TIE::Array to an iterator. An intelligent array. Anyone know of anything like that?

157     do {
158       my $tmp_rows = $sth->fetchall_arrayref;
159       push @result_sets, $tmp_rows;
160     } while ( $sth->{syb_more_results} );

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