Re: bug w/ cursors and savepoints

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bug w/ cursors and savepoints
Date: 2005-01-26 23:59:33
Message-ID: 23440.1106783973@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:02 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Hmm ... not sure how hard that is.

> Would it work to record the sub XID of the deleting subtxn on CLOSE, and
> then consider whether to "really" do the deletion when the subtxn
> commits/aborts?

It'd take more than that. Consider

BEGIN;
DECLARE c CURSOR ...;
SAVEPOINT x;
CLOSE c;
DECLARE c CURSOR ...; -- draws duplicate-cursor error

You'd need to do something to "hide" the deleted cursor for the
remainder of its subtransaction.

regards, tom lane

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