Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Fetching from a non-cursor
Author Dimitry Sibiryakov
18.10.2010 9:21, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
> EXECUTE PROCEDURE is parsed as special kind of SQL operator, which (if
> user thinks about roundtrips) must be executed with special API call.
> Imagine that call used in a case when multiple rows should be returned.
> May be it's possible to fetch more rows from such statement, but how can
> used know, should he do it or not? Moreover, to get an idea about it,
> statement start to execute. All together all this looks far not good for me.

AFAIK, this "special API call" can be used for executing of SELECT too. If used without
output SQLDA it requires SELECT to be singleton (and must start to execute it to know
whether it is). Without output SQLDA, it allows one or more fetch calls to retrieve result
set later. So, what's the difference?

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