Re: [GENERAL] How to get many data at once?

Try to use

SELECT ARRAY(SELECT t_data FROM THETABLE WHERE t_ref_id = '1') AS v;

In PHP you may fetch all matched values as a single string and then - use explode() to split it into values (possibly with later stripslashes).
It is much faster than fetching a thousands of rows.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:03 PM, 窦德厚(ddh) <doudehou@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, if I have such a table:

t_ref_id     t_data
--------------------
1             'abc'
2             '321'
1             'ddd'
2             'xyz'
9             '777'
...


I want to get data with a special t_ref_id:

SELECT t_data FROM THETABLE WHERE t_ref_id = '1';

I must use a while loop to extract the data (I'm using PHP):

$rows = array();
while (($row = pgsql_fetch_assoc($result) !== false) {
    $rows[] = $row;
}

And if there are many matched rows, such as many hundreds or thousands of rows, I think such a loop maybe inefficient.

How to do this in a more efficient way?

Thank you!



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ddh