Re: where are the query output tuples stored

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:
> On 08/03/2011 11:43, Qiqi YU wrote:
>>
>> Hi Raymond,
>>
>> That could be one possible way.
>> The thing is I need to extend the current pgAdmin tool, such as adding
>> a new tuple to the output panel (the output panel would contain many
>> tuples of resultant data). So which function in pgAdmin does the job
>> of creating the output table and filling in the data? I have been
>> using ddd to trace the program, but pgAdmin keeps starting new threads
>> and lost me.
>
> I'm afraid I don't know.... the source code for PgAdmin is at
> www.pgadmin.org, and the developers are on this list, so maybe they can help
> you.

The data is stored in a virtual table - the grid accesses it directly
from the pgSet object we get when we run the query, by using the
sqlResultTable::GetValue function whenever it wants a value.

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