[fpc-pascal] TSQLQuery and buffering.

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017, Gary Doades wrote:

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> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Gary Doades wrote:
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>>> Really, the question is simple: Is there ANY way of TSQLQuery NOT 
>>> reading the entire result set into memory?
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>> Set Unidirectional to True, and it will keep only 1 row in memory.
>> When you are simply scanning through the result set, this is all you need.
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> Hi Michael,
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> Many thanks for your reply. I had read about UniDirectional and I have indeed tried this. It doesn't seem to make any significant difference. Looking through the source code for TBufDataset it looks like UniDirectional just turns off building various indexes/structures etc. and fetches the result set all in one go instead of 10 row chunks. It still buffers everything in memory.

In that case, it is a bug. The very purpose of UniDirectional is 
exactly NOT to buffer anything, just to keep the current record in memory.

Michael.