[Zope-DB] Statement in cursor.execute (DCOracle2)

[Gilberto Pereira]

Matthew T. Kromer wrote:

> Gilberto Pereira wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to know if there's a limit in size for the statement 
>> used in cursor.execute ?
>>
>> Iīm planning to use it in a possible large select statement, where 
>> i'm probably going to enumerate perhaps hundreds or thousands foreign 
>> keys in where clauses... So i would like to know if i'm going to face 
>> some problems in the future with this and decide to use a diferent 
>> approach, while i still can :)
>>
>> Thanks, Gil
>
>
>
> The SQL statement processor in Oracle can handle up to about a 2K 
> statement, I think.  If you were planning on doing a huge "where x is 
> A or x is B or x is C ..." I would re-think that logic.
>
> One way to handle it is to use a PL/SQL TABLE OF  type, where you are 
> essentially able to pass in up to 32K elements in a column to a stored 
> procedure.   The procedure could then use that "table" to do a join.
>
>
Thanks for the speedy answer Matt... and you were right, thatīs exactly 
what i was planning to do...
It seems i'm going to do it in another way...

Gil