# fetch.py -- example about declaring cursors # # Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Federico Di Gregorio # # psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public # License for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg2 if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dns:", DSN conn = psycopg2.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) # # we don't need to DECLARE ourselves, psycopg now supports named # cursors (but we leave the code here, comments, as an example of # what psycopg is doing under the hood) # #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()) ncurs = conn.cursor("crs") ncurs.execute("SELECT * FROM test_fetch") print "First 10 rows:", flatten(ncurs.fetchmany(10)) ncurs.scroll(-5) print "Moved back cursor by 5 rows (to row 5.)" print "Another 10 rows:", flatten(ncurs.fetchmany(10)) print "Another one:", list(ncurs.fetchone()) print "The remaining rows:", flatten(ncurs.fetchall()) conn.rollback() curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_fetch") conn.commit()