A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, orbit@0x63.nu (Christoffer Gurell) wrote:
>> I think you should use a cursor; you declare it, and then you fetch the
>> rows as you need them.
>
> thanks this works really nice.. just one more question .. how do i check the
> number of rows in a cursor? or do i have to do a select count(*) on the query
> i use to create the cursor?
Make sure that the count(*) query takes place in the scope of the same
transaction, and that you SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE
in that transaction, otherwise the count(*) query may find different
results...
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