Re: Not clear on what PQgetResult does - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From David Rysdam
Subject Re: Not clear on what PQgetResult does
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Msg-id 437CE1B0.3040001@ll.mit.edu
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In response to Re: Not clear on what PQgetResult does  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Not clear on what PQgetResult does  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>David Rysdam <drysdam@ll.mit.edu> writes:
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>>I don't understand in what sense PQgetResult is asynchronous.
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>It isn't.  You can use it in an asynchronous client, but the way you do
>that is by not calling it until PQisBusy says you can (which means the
>whole result has arrived, and you're just calling PQgetResult to get
>hold of it).
>
So there's no way to have libpq return partial results before they are 
all ready?

If I may, I would like to express some degree of incredulity.  Even the 
version of Sybase I'm using does this right and it's from 1997!


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