Re: 7.1 ESQL/C: how to get number of rows from a select?

Posted in 1996

Koen Van der Elst — 8 Aug 1996 19:08:24 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> I would like to know in advance how many rows will be returned from a SELECT > statement, to be able to allocate my correspondig C-structures at once. Try looking into the sqlca and related records. They are C structures. One of the members of the structures contains the number of fields touched by an SQL operation. Reminder : To perform a non-singleton select in ESQL/C you need a cursor ! Koen