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PostgreSQL, Second Edition
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PostgreSQL, Second Edition

by Korry Douglas, Susan Douglas
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1032 pages
27h 10m
English
Sams
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Client 3—Processing Queries

When you execute a query using ODBC, your client will first send the query to the server, and then process the results.

The ODBC result-processing model is more complex than other PostgreSQL APIs. In the libpq, libpq++, and libpgeasy APIs, you send a query to the server and then call a function to access each field (in each row) in the result set.

An ODBC application generally uses a different scheme. After you send the query to the server, you bind each field in the result set to a variable in your application. After all the result fields are bound, you can fetch the individual rows in the result set—each time you fetch a new row, the bound variables are populated by ODBC.

Listing 12.3 shows you how to execute a query ...

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