At 11:35, 19990818, Dan Ray wrote:
> Any opinons on whether it's more efficient to fetch rows all-at-once
>or one-at-a-time? SHOULD I be using fetchall? Certainly it's trickier
>to pull data out of the structure it returns. Given Perl's overhead
>related to dereferencing nested references, is it better to use the
>fetchrow_* methods? Anyone have an opinion about it?
I often use fetchall_arrayref because I think the it's simpler to work
with the data...but that's me being weird. I think that if you can
use the data one row at a time (i.e., you don't ever need to go back
and look at a previous row), then it's better to use fetchrow_*. If
you need all the data anyway, go ahead and use fetchall_*.
Tim
