I agree with
higle that you don't have to worry about the number of rows that will be returned, but I would warn you about doing "SELECT *". There are probably a number of discourses about this on the site, but it's generally a good idea to only select the fields that you need. Especially when you are looking at pumping those fields into an array, if you have lots of columns that makes things messy,
especially if someone else has to look at your code and figure out why you are wanting
$a[0], $a[3], and $a[17] from the result array. This will also speed up the queries a bit because the database systems won't have to put together a result of all the columns. In general, it's just better practice not to SELECT *.
