Re: [Tutor] how best to implement paginated data in CLI

2010-09-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"Rance Hall" wrote In reviewing the app I'm hoping to replace I found the size of the client list is under 100 records. Given this new information, do you still think that db cursors is the way to go? Using the cursor is a more scaleable solution but if you are sure you only ever have 100

Re: [Tutor] how best to implement paginated data in CLI

2010-09-14 Thread Rance Hall
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "Rance Hall" wrote > >> I'm using python 3.1 with py-postgresql (located at >> http://python.projects.postgresql.org/ >> >> I need to work through how best to paginate larger sql result sets. > > Its usually best to do that at the SQL level b

Re: [Tutor] how best to implement paginated data in CLI

2010-09-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Rance Hall" wrote I'm using python 3.1 with py-postgresql (located at http://python.projects.postgresql.org/ I need to work through how best to paginate larger sql result sets. Its usually best to do that at the SQL level by controlling the cursor. I don't know PostGres but most SQL dial

[Tutor] how best to implement paginated data in CLI

2010-09-14 Thread Rance Hall
I'm using python 3.1 with py-postgresql (located at http://python.projects.postgresql.org/ I need to work through how best to paginate larger sql result sets. my SELECT statement returns a list, I can get its len() to find out that X records were returned What I want to do is print the first N r