Re: Move cursor

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "FERREIRA William (COFRAMI)" <william(dot)ferreira(at)airbus(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Move cursor
Date: 2005-03-08 17:28:39
Message-ID: 20050308172839.GA95503@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:
> > I don't think PL/pgSQL implements cursors fully.
>
> Its cursor facility is certainly far weaker than what's presently in the
> main SQL language. I think this is at least partly historical accident
> (ie we upgraded the main language and forgot about plpgsql).

Would adding MOVE to PL/pgSQL be a fairly trivial effort? If so
then I'd consider having a go at it myself, unless it's something
somebody else could bang out in five minutes (and was willing to
do so).

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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