psycopg2 and large queries

Laszlo Nagy gandalf at shopzeus.com
Fri Dec 19 02:54:26 EST 2008


> They do have a description attribute, but it is only populated after
> you fetch a row.  eg try
> cur = conn.cursor(name='mycursor')
> cur.execute('select name from blah')
> cur.fetchone()
> print cur.description
>   
Oh, great. I should have known. Thanks. Maybe I can live with psycopg2, 
because combining server side (named) cursors with fetchmany(100) gives 
fast query opening and relatively fast row fetching.

Thank you for all!

   Laszlo




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