sqlalchemy.engine.cursor.BufferedRowCursorFetchStrategy

A cursor fetch strategy with row buffering behavior. This strategy buffers the contents of a selection of rows before ``fetchone()`` is called. This is to allow the results of ``cursor.description`` to be available immediately, when interfacing with a DB-API that requires rows to be consumed before this information is available (currently psycopg2, when used with server-side cursors). The pre-fetching behavior fetches only one row initially, and then grows its buffer size by a fixed amount with each successive need for additional rows up the ``max_row_buffer`` size, which defaults to 1000:: with psycopg2_engine.connect() as conn: result = conn.execution_options( stream_results=True, max_row_buffer=50 ).execute(text("select * from table")) .. versionadded:: 1.4 ``max_row_buffer`` may now exceed 1000 rows. .. seealso:: :ref:`psycopg2_execution_options`