Re: retun cursor

On Sat, 2000-04-08 at 17:26, Madhavi Daroor wrote:
> Hi,
> I followed the steps that you told me. An it worked fine. But I have one
> problem and that is......when I try to fetch all the resords of a table, it
> gives me the folowing error
>
> psqldb=# fetch all from "<unnamed cursor 4>";
> less: not found
>
> Why does this happen? and after I get this error, if I try to fetch fewer
> number or records say 5, then it returns 0 records.

less is a pager program. Either install it or set PAGER=more in your
environment before running psql.

> Does this happen because there are large number of records in the cursor?

No; it is because your pager program is missing.

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