Re: [INTERFACES] Dereferencing PG_Result - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

> Here's the code:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use Pg
>
> $conn = Pg::connectdb("dbname = mydb");
> $result = $conn->exec("select * from mytable");
>
> print $result "\n";
>
> ----end code---
>
> This is what's returned:
>
> PG_results=SCALAR(0x8110e14)
>
> ----end result-----
> Mydb has a table mytable with a field myfield.  There are two tuples.
>
> Question:  How can I deference the pointer to get at the actual data?

      if ( $result->ntuples > 0 ) {
        for $i ( 0 .. $result->ntuples - 1 ) {
          my ( $field1, $field2 ) = ($result->getvalue($i, 0), $result->getvalue($i, 1));
      ....
        }
      }

--Gene