Re: Postgresql & Oracle Heteregenous services - strange behaviour - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Marcin Stępnicki
Subject Re: Postgresql & Oracle Heteregenous services - strange behaviour
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Msg-id pan.2007.01.17.13.25.41.371643@gmail.com
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In response to Postgresql & Oracle Heteregenous services - strange behaviour  (Marcin Stępnicki <mstepnicki@gmail.com>)
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Dnia Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:04:28 +0000, Richard Huxton napisał(a):

> Andrew Sullivan wrote:

>> I bet it's getting the column list from the table or some such thing. 
>> This is a lousy way to do it (the information_schema would be more
>> correct, although maybe no faster).
> 
> That'd be my guess. And then it's not fetching any rows, expecting 
> cursor-like behaviour. Of course we fetch all the rows before returning 
> any results.

Bingo! select * from from "zew_patients"@my_postgresql results in 
select a1.col1, a1.col2, a1.col3 from zew_patients in postgresql logs.
> The real solution would be to add "LIMIT 0" or "LIMIT 1" to the 
> column-finding query, but I doubt that's possible with the Oracle plugin.
> Perhaps check if there's a "fetch N rows at a time" option for the ODBC 
> setup that might help you.

Thank you both, I'll poke around and drop a note when I find something :).

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