Re: How to discard partially retrieved result set with the C API?

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: 邓尧 <torshie(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to discard partially retrieved result set with the C API?
Date: 2014-02-18 11:28:16
Message-ID: CAFj8pRDDwTFX4Vmn+526yAB0fvp2V0KVRNGSzqf2n+Z0TyATPg@mail.gmail.com
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2014-02-18 11:53 GMT+01:00 Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>:

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> 2014-02-18 13:44 GMT+04:00 邓尧 <torshie(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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>> When single row mode is enabled, after retrieving part of the result set,
>> I'm no longer interested in the rest of it (due to error handling or other
>> reasons). How can I discard the result set without repeatedly calling
>> PQgetResult() in such situation ?
>> The result set may be quite large and it's inefficient to call
>> PQgetResult() repeatedly, so it's necessary to do so sometimes.
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>> Thanks
>> Yao
>>
> I think you should use PQcancel().
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is not better to use a cursor for this use case?

Pavel

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> // Dmitriy.
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