Re: Bug in PL/pgSQL FOR cursor variant

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bug in PL/pgSQL FOR cursor variant
Date: 2010-06-21 21:59:25
Message-ID: 1277157470-sup-508@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Heikki Linnakangas's message of lun jun 21 17:47:43 -0400 2010:

> Maybe it would be easier to somehow protect the portal then, and throw
> an error if you try to close it. We could just mark the portal as
> PORTAL_ACTIVE while we run the user statements, but that would also
> forbid fetching or moving it. I'm thinking of a new "pinned" state,
> which is like PORTAL_READY except that the portal can't be dropped like
> in PORTAL_ACTIVE state.

Why is it an error to close the portal? Maybe we should keep it closed
(i.e. don't free it), and error out only when it is accessed again.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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