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Re: Perl4caml packaged



On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:45:02PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:24:30AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > The OCaml ODBC interface is very simple.  Too simple, in fact.
> > Basically, it will let you load up the entire result of a query into
> > RAM, optionally with column metadata.  Then you just iterate over it.
> > 
> > There are only about 5 functions defined there.
> 
> That's good.  PostgreSQL works the same way (w.r.t. loading all the
> results into RAM at once).  I'll have a look at it anyway.  Someone

Ouch.  That really bites.  Why would they do that?  Cursors have been a
feature of database interfaces for ages...

> else was asking about this on ocaml-beginners so maybe he'll pay me to
> do it (:-)

That person was me...    fat chance :-)

-- John



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