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PDO Support for scrollable cursors

At the topof the documentation for phalcon pagination it states that "Since PDO doesn’t support scrollable cursors this adapter shouldn’t be used to paginate a large number of records".

Could someone please clarify on this because as far as i am aware postgres (which I am using) DOES support scrollable cursors. As such i cannot see why there would be any memory issues with large data sets.

I have not looked into the internals of pagination, but I can only assume the cursor is moved to the necessary point and then moves forward for the respective number of items per page defined.

Thanks Thomas



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edited Jul '14

The MySQL driver that has support via the PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY, but you don't have a generic way of doing it with all db drivers.

It's possible with PDO, by declaring coursors as described here by Anthony: https://agentile.com/postgres-cursors-and-php .



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You can use the QueryBuilder paginator which use a LIMIT/OFFSET clause to avoid that problem: https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/pagination.html#adapters-usage



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My question is moreso what is the problem?

My understanding of postgres is that there should be no need for the above solutions. Thanks