in reply to Re: Speeding up the DBI
in thread Speeding up the DBI
Yes it is. DBD::mysql behaves in the same way that DBD::Pg does when it comes to pulling all of the rows from the database server.
If you want DBD::mysql to act as if it were using cursors, you can specify mysql_use_rows on the statement handle, and then it will not pull over the whole data set on execute.
For DBD::Pg, you can declare a cursor and then execute the fetch in a loop until you have recieved all of the data. Admittedly this coould be done in a cleaner fashion where prepare could take an attribute and if prepare sees that attribute it will declare a cursor and rewrite your statement to use the cursor (which is what Pg::Simple does,IIRC)
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