Cursors and standard queries are pretty much the same, except the cursor
can control the rows returned.
> Hello,
>
> in the C interface documentation there is an example using:
>
> res = PQexec(conn, "DECLARE mycursor CURSOR FOR select * from
> pg_database");
> if (!res || PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK)
> {
> fprintf(stderr, "DECLARE CURSOR command failed\n");
> PQclear(res);
> exit_nicely(conn);
> }
> PQclear(res);
> res = PQexec(conn, "FETCH ALL in mycursor");
>
> ...etc. So the statements are:
>
> DECLARE mycursor CURSOR FOR select * from pg_database;
> FETCH ALL in mycursor;
>
> What's the difference between this and simply doing:
> select * from pg_database;
>
> I tried this in psql, the result seemed the same.
>
> What I'm really using, however, is the C++ interface.
> Its documentation is not yet complete.
> There, too, I tried a version with and without cursor.
> The result seems to be the same, but returned int is always 0
> for the version without cursor, so I get no information whether
> the query succeeded.
>
> Is someone maintaining the C++ interface and its documentation?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Volker Paul
>
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