[DB-SIG] cursor.fetchiter()?

[Anthony Baxter]

Would it make sense for DB-SIG compliant modules to support a 
cursor.fetchiter() type method, to use the iterator protocol
(instead of fetchall()'s current load-everything-into-memory
first approach). Clever extensions could be written to grab 
N at a time, where N is less than 10,000,000, but more than 1 -
this then means you get faster performance than fetchone(),
and a less sucky API.

res = cursor.fetchone()
while res:
    dostuffwith(res)
    res = cursor.fetchone()

vs

for res in cursor.fetchiter():
    dostuffwith(res)

And yes, you can get something that's most of the way there 
now with something like the code in the cookbook entry
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/137270 - 
just wondering if it's something worth adding to the API. 

Anthony
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