Nicholas Sherlock wrote:
Jim Michaels wrote:
Is it safe to do what is below? deleting from a resultset while you
are processing it? I don't know how dynamic the SQL database is. I
assume you get a cursor to live dataset. Even if it is a cursor as
opposed to a table, will the cursor's integrity be ruined if the
current record is deleted?
$q2=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE id1=5", $link);
while ($row2=mysql_fetch_array($q2)) {
//do some stuff with resultset
mysql_query("DELETE FROM table1 WHERE id1=5 AND id2=$row2[id2]",
$link);
}
mysql_free_result($q2);
AFAIK, it'll be totally fine. But isn't your code equivalent to this?
$q2=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE id1=5", $link);
while ($row2=mysql_fetch_array($q2)) {
//do some stuff with resultset
}
mysql_free_result($q2);
mysql_query("DELETE FROM table1 WHERE id1=5", $link);
Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
Jim,
I'm not sure if it's safe or not - typically I've tried to stay away
from this construct. And I haven't been able to find any doc talking
about it one way or the other.
If I were doing it, I'd save the id's in an array and delete them after
I'm done with the result set. But that's just me.
And Nicholas, no, it's not the same. Jim is deleting from the result
set (potentially multiple rows based on other selection criteria).
You're deleting all rows with id1=5, which may or may not be what he
wants (he may only want to delete some of the rows, for instance).
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