Re: ecpg Fetch issue

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Tzuriel Kahlon <tzuriel.kahlon@surecomp.com>, "pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-11-10T11:43:03Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On 09/11/2025 15:26, Tzuriel Kahlon wrote:
> Hey ,
> my progra running from Cobol and im using ECPG for that the issue is 
> when i use FETCH command the fetch going one by one
> and not take all the rows in batch , there is any solution for that 
> regard to change the code itself ?

There's an example in the docs that fetches multiple rows into an array. 
See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/ecpg-descriptors.html:

> PostgreSQL supports retrieving more that one record in one FETCH statement and storing the data in host variables in this case assumes that the variable is an array. E.g.:
> 
> EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
> int id[5];
> EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
> 
> EXEC SQL FETCH 5 FROM mycursor INTO SQL DESCRIPTOR mydesc;
> 
> EXEC SQL GET DESCRIPTOR mydesc VALUE 1 :id = DATA;

P.S. Please post usage questions like this to pgsql-general in the 
future, the pgsql-bugs list is for reporting bugs.

- Heikki