Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au> writes:
> I didn't find a reasonable way to simply fetch a cursor into a (possibly
> temporary) table, like:
> INSERT INTO sometable FETCH ALL FROM somecursor;
Why would you bother with a cursor, and not just INSERT ... SELECT
using the original query?
Putting a cursor in between will just make matters more complicated and
slower. (For one thing, the plan created for a cursor is optimized for
incremental fetching not read-it-all-at-once.)
regards, tom lane