Re: RE: [PEAR-DEV] numRows(), out of order row fetching and stuff?

From: Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:02:28 +0000
Subject: Re: RE: [PEAR-DEV] numRows(), out of order row fetching and stuff?
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Lukas Smith wrote:
From: Hans Lellelid [mailto:hans@appliedsec.com] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:39 PM | Is it ok to drop numRows()? In the apps that I've written with MDB, I don't think I've ever needed
to
use numRows(). I was going to say that numRows() is important when
doing
pagination, but even in that case, my "Search" classes just rebuild a COUNT(*) version of the query to use for calculating total result set length.
Yeah if all you are concerned with is the number of rows then use COUNT(*).
Perhaps you could re-implement numRows() to do this, and add a big warning about performance, or is the goal to cut off bloat? Greg

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