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in thread It's bad manners to slurp

It is possible to change this behaviour with both DBD::mysql and DBD::pg For DBD::mysql you can give prepare {mysql_use_result => 1}. But be aware that by doing this, you change the behaviour of the rows() method. And for DBD::pg you can use cursors: 

    $db->do("declare imprecator CURSOR FOR select * from test");
    $c = $db->prepare("FETCH 100 FROM imprecator")

    for (1..10) {   # I have a more robust example somewhere
        $c->execute();
        print Data::Dumper::Dumper($c->fetchall_arrayref())
    }

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It would probably be possible to encode this in the driver so you could pass an attribute to prepare {pg_use_cursor =>1}.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It's bad manners to slurp
by eserte (Deacon) on Apr 29, 2004 at 17:12 UTC
    Another way for simple queries with MySQL 4.x is to use the HANDLER statement. 
    HANDLER table OPEN;
HANDLER table READ FIRST;
HANDLER table READ NEXT;

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      Care to elaborate? I'm unfamiliar with HANDLER.

      -sam

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        It's some kind of low-level SELECT. You can't do complex queries or joins with HANDLER. You can just walk the table from the beginning to the end, optionally by using simple restrictions like > or =. The result of a "HANDLER READ" statement is a complete row, there's no way to select single rows. The advantage is speed and less memory consumption.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It's bad manners to slurp
by samtregar (Abbot) on Apr 29, 2004 at 17:06 UTC
    Interesting. However, according the DBD::mysql docs mysql_use_result "tends to block other processes." I'm not sure what that means exactly but it doesn't sound good! I think I'll stick with LIMIT and OFFSET...

    -sam

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