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authormike bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>2013-07-14 09:58:43 -0700
committerMike Bayer <mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com>2013-07-14 13:00:05 -0400
commitbb290b46a65d51f1b435031b132f03ec810b44da (patch)
tree0b93d66f81d45780ab2d5c9a571ce3c3e4734a79
parent900780bceaad1905f9ce626ce429c9eaf06106e4 (diff)
downloadsqlalchemy-bb290b46a65d51f1b435031b132f03ec810b44da.tar.gz
Merge pull request #17 from iElectric/docs/wording_yield_per
wording about supported dialects for Query.yield_per
-rw-r--r--lib/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py
index 286dbf6b3..2e849fba9 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py
@@ -674,12 +674,12 @@ class Query(object):
loading, the full result for all rows is fetched which generally
defeats the purpose of :meth:`~sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query.yield_per`.
- Also note that many DBAPIs do not "stream" results, pre-buffering
- all rows before making them available, including mysql-python and
- psycopg2. :meth:`~sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query.yield_per` will also
- set the ``stream_results`` execution
- option to ``True``, which currently is only understood by psycopg2
- and causes server side cursors to be used.
+ Also note that while :meth:`~sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query.yield_per`
+ will set the ``stream_results`` execution option to True, currently
+ this is only understood by :mod:`~sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql.psycopg2` dialect
+ which will stream results using server side cursors instead of pre-buffer
+ all rows for this query. Other DBAPIs pre-buffer all rows before
+ making them available.
"""
self._yield_per = count