On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:55 PM, Andy Lester wrote:
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:38:12PM -0600, Jay Hannah (jhannah@omnihotels.com) wrote:Quiz: What's wrong with doing "select *" followed by fetchrow_array?Wrong in which sense? In the sense that the column order may change in the future and break your code?
Yes. That was exactly the sense I was looking for. -grin- Our code lives a long time. Our tables tend to change.(Plus the less concerning fact that it's wasting CPU cycles on the columns that aren't used.)
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