I am not sure why they are doing it. You need to hack the protocol to understand it.
Maybe some MySQL/network GURU will be able to help yuo. Regards, Karam --- Renald Buter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01:55 Tue 11 Jan , Karam Chand wrote: > > Yup. > > > > This is a normal behaviour. mysql_free_result() > will > > result in bringing each unasked rows to the client > and > > freeing it up row by row. > > > > This sounds to me as a useless "feature". What could > be the reason for > such wasting behaviour? > > > BTW, why do you need to do - "select * from ????" > > > > I need to visit every row. Originally, this came up > when debugging my > code, and since then I added a LIMIT statement when > doing so. > > But it still find these kinds of things annoying and > unsatisfiying from > an engineering point of view --- and I was just > curious if it was *me* > who did something wrong. > > But thanks for the answer! > > Regards, > > Renald > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]