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pg_result

Name

pg_result -- get information about a query result

Synopsis

pg_result resultHandle resultOption

Inputs

resultHandle

The handle for a query result.

resultOption

Specifies one of several possible options.

Options

-status

the status of the result.

-error

the error message, if the status indicates error; otherwise an empty string.

-conn

the connection that produced the result.

-oid

if the command was an INSERT, the OID of the inserted tuple; otherwise an empty string.

-numTuples

the number of tuples returned by the query.

-numAttrs

the number of attributes in each tuple.

-list VarName

assign the results to a list of lists.

-assign arrayName

assign the results to an array, using subscripts of the form (tupno,attributeName).

-assignbyidx arrayName ?appendstr?

assign the results to an array using the first attribute's value and the remaining attributes' names as keys. If appendstr is given then it is appended to each key. In short, all but the first field of each tuple are stored into the array, using subscripts of the form (firstFieldValue,fieldNameAppendStr).

-getTuple tupleNumber

returns the fields of the indicated tuple in a list. Tuple numbers start at zero.

-tupleArray tupleNumber arrayName

stores the fields of the tuple in array arrayName, indexed by field names. Tuple numbers start at zero.

-attributes

returns a list of the names of the tuple attributes.

-lAttributes

returns a list of sublists, {name ftype fsize} for each tuple attribute.

-clear

clear the result query object.

Outputs

The result depends on the selected option, as described above.

Description

pg_result returns information about a query result created by a prior pg_exec.

You can keep a query result around for as long as you need it, but when you are done with it, be sure to free it by executing pg_result -clear. Otherwise, you have a memory leak, and Pgtcl will eventually start complaining that you've created too many query result objects.