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PostgreSQL Development Essentials

You're reading from   PostgreSQL Development Essentials Advanced querying, data modeling and performance tuning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783989003
Length 210 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Baji Shaik Baji Shaik
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Preface 1. Advanced SQL FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Manipulation 3. Triggers 4. Understanding Database Design Concepts 5. Transactions and Locking 6. Indexes and Constraints 7. Table Partitioning 8. Query Tuning and Optimization 9. PostgreSQL Extensions and Large Object Support 10. Using PHP in PostgreSQL 11. Using Java in PostgreSQL

Helper functions to deal with data fetching

There are other helper functions that help you retrieve the results. Let's go through these functions one by one:

pg_free_results

Using the pg_free_results function, we can clear the memory resources that are used to hold the result set. All the data retrieval functions we used earlier occupy a certain amount of memory to hold the result set. It is a good practice to clear the result set after we are done processing the query results.

pg_num_rows

Using the pg_num_rows function, we can get the number of tuples in the result set. That is, if we execute a query, it returns the number of tuples the SELECT query has fetched from the database.

pg_num_fields

Using the pg_num_fields function, we can get the number of columns or fields in the result set. That is, it returns the number of columns we mentioned in the SELECT query.

pg_field_name

Using pg_field_name function, we can get the field name that we mentioned in the SELECT query. This...

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