Re: Number of rows in a cursor ?

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:29:00PM +0200, Bo Lorentsen wrote:
> Michael Fuhr wrote:
> >...which is the same reason a cursor doesn't know how many rows it will
> >fetch until you fetch them all (or MOVE to the end of the cursor,
> >which fetches the rows internally).
>
> So, Postgresql is not hidding something for me, it just, like me, don't
> know ?

Right -- when you open a cursor PostgreSQL doesn't know how many
rows it will return. PostgreSQL selects a query plan based on an
*estimate* of how many rows the query will return, but until you
fetch all the rows you can't know for sure how many rows there will
be.

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Michael Fuhr