Informix FETCH
To access rows returned in a result set, you use the FETCH
statement the same way you use it for cursors. The FETCH statement
can be executed after any EXECUTE statement that refers to a procedure
that returns a result set.
Informix syntax
PowerBuilder supports Informix syntax; however, the default
syntax displayed in the DataWindow painter is the most general syntax.
You can leave the syntax unchanged or edit the displayed syntax
to conform to the Informix syntax rules. If you do not change the
syntax, PowerBuilder converts it to Informix syntax before passing
it to the Informix database.
Example 1
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FETCH emp_proc INTO :emp_name_var; |
You can use this FETCH statement only to access values produced
with a SELECT statement in a database stored procedure. You cannot
use the FETCH statement to access computed rows.
The result sets that will be returned when a database stored
procedure executes cannot be determined at compile time. Therefore,
you must code FETCH statements that exactly match the format of
a result set returned by the stored procedure when it executes.
Example 2
Assume you changed the second fetch statement in the preceding
statement to:
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FETCH emp_proc2 <br> INTO :part_var1,:part_var2,:part_var3; |
The code would compile without errors, but an execution error
would occur because the number of columns in the FETCH statement
does not match the number of columns in the current result set.
The second result set returns values from only one column.