[DB-SIG] Database API clarifications

[Bill Tutt]

Generally the way to do this is just to have a seperate getNextResult() API
call that you call when your first result set
fetch*() calls return None.

Bill

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tod Olson [SMTP:tao@stone.lib.uchicago.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, January 26, 1998 10:00 AM
> To:	db-sig@python.org
> Subject:	[DB-SIG] Database API clarifications
> 
> I'm working on a Sybase interface for Python.  The ones that exist do
> not appear to permit sufficient low-level access for my needs, so I'm
> implementing a low-level interface as a wrapper around Open Client and
> will build a database-API-compliant interface on top of that.
> 
> Sybase permits one to issue a command that will generate multiple
> result sets.  The database-API does not directly address this
> possibility.  How should the fetch*() functions distinguish to the
> Python programmer the difference between the end of the current result
> set and the end of all data returned by the command?
> 
> Under the current database-API, the programmer could loop over any of
> the fetch*() functions, have None signal end of all results, and look
> for a change in description to signal a new result set.  (Personal
> bias: fetchmany() and fetchall() should only return rows from one
> result set on any invocation.)  But this is potentially unreliable, as
> two result sets might have the same descriptions.
> 
> Another question: once any of fetch*() returns None, should they
> continue to return None until the next command is sent, or can they
> signal an error after returning None?
> 
> I'm interested in these fetch*() details because I am implementing
> them (so for as possible) directly in my low-level interface.
> 
> Anyone else running into these issues?  Anyone else interested in
> lower level access to Sybase?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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