multi-result set MySQLdb queries.

Andrew Robinson andrew3 at r3dsolutions.com
Thu Feb 7 16:58:46 EST 2013


Hi, I'm being forced to use "import MySQLdb" to access a server....and 
am not getting all my data back.

I'm trying to send multiple queries all at once (for time reasons) and 
then extract the rows in bulk.
The queries have different number of columns;  For a contrived example;

script.db.query( '(SELECT Id, password, sessionFlags FROM account WHERE 
Id=(SELECT Id FROM ident where email="%s")); (SELECT * FROM identify);' 
% (prefix) )

resultStore = (script.db.store_result())
     result  = resultStore.fetch_row( maxrows=10 )
     result = str(result) + ":::"+str( resultStore.fetch_row(maxrows=10) )

This ought to return two result sets; and under php -- it does.
The first query, returns 1 row; the second returns 4 rows.

However, when I try to get the results using PYTHON's MySQLdb; I get
((2L, 'abcdefg', 0L),):::()

which is wrong...

I tried doing a "result store" twice, but executing it twice causes an 
exception;
(besides breaking the bulk transfer paradigm that I want ...)

Is this a bug in python/mySQLdb -- or is there another way this is 
supposed to be done?

---------------------------  Appendix (full code, with sensitive 
information foobar'd) -------------------

def m_database():
     global script
     import MySQLdb

     script.db = MySQLdb.connect(
         host = "foo.ipagemysql.com",
           user = "bar",
           passwd = "fooooobar",
         db = "bar"
       )

     prefix = "foobaaaaaaaaarfoo at eggsandspam.commedy.com"
     script.db.query( '(SELECT Id, password, sessionFlags FROM account 
WHERE Id=(SELECT Id FROM identify where email="%s")); (SELECT * FROM 
identify);' % (prefix) )
     # Get the ID number for the account,
     # and then go get the password for verification purposes.
     resultStore = (script.db.store_result())
     result  = resultStore.fetch_row( maxrows=10 )

     # attempt to retrieve second query set
     # resultStore = (script.db.store_result()) # This will cause an 
exception... so commented out.
     result = str(result) + ":::"+str( resultStore.fetch_row(maxrows=10) )

     script.db.close()
     return result





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