# fetch.py -- example about declaring cursors # # Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Federico Di Gregorio # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later # version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License # for more details. # ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dns:", DSN conn = psycopg.connect(DSN) print "Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding curs = conn.cursor() try: curs.execute("CREATE TABLE test_fetch (val int4)") except: conn.rollback() curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_fetch") curs.execute("CREATE TABLE test_fetch (val int4)") conn.commit() # we use this function to format the output def flatten(l): """Flattens list of tuples l.""" return map(lambda x: x[0], l) # insert 20 rows in the table for i in range(20): curs.execute("INSERT INTO test_fetch VALUES(%s)", (i,)) conn.commit() # does some nice tricks with the transaction and postgres cursors # (remember to always commit or rollback before a DECLARE) curs.execute("DECLARE crs CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM test_fetch") curs.execute("FETCH 10 FROM crs") print "First 10 rows:", flatten(curs.fetchall()) curs.execute("MOVE -5 FROM crs") print "Moved back cursor by 5 rows (to row 5.)" curs.execute("FETCH 10 FROM crs") print "Another 10 rows:", flatten(curs.fetchall()) curs.execute("FETCH 10 FROM crs") print "The remaining rows:", flatten(curs.fetchall()) # rollback to close the transaction conn.rollback() curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_fetch") conn.commit()