Hi.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:16:45AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> What is the current way to move back and forwards and to any position in a
> recordset without losing performance

There is no way. For effiency, the record set is hold in memory as
linked list. Searching a position in linked lists has a complexity of
O(n). 

If you really need random accesses, first copy the data or the
pointers to an array, which then can be accessed randomly.

Bye,

        Benjamin.


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> But if I want to use mysql_data_seek() it is very slow

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