Hello Mark,

DOQUERY is indeed what you need here, but you got the arguments all wrong -- which, looking at the documentation, is not very surprising. I'll add a decent example there. For now, I think you want this:

(defun iterate-rows () (doquery (:select 'name :from 'htable) (xname) (print xname)))

Best, Marijn

2008/10/1 Mark Slamin mslamin@gmail.com:

Sorry, more questions. I'm trying to iterate down rows in the database. Using doquery like this: I receive the following error: The value of CL-POSTGRES::QUERY is ("(A B)"), which is not of type STRING. [Condition of type SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR] I'm not sure what to do with that. Also, on a broader scale, what I'm trying to do is iterate through the rows of a large database and I don't want to load the entire results of the query into memory. Ideally I just want to load one record with all its fields, perform some operations on that data, write the record back if its been updated, and then move to the next record. Is doquery the best method for that? Or is there something else that would work better? Thank you, Mark _______________________________________________ postmodern-devel mailing list postmodern-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postmodern-devel