Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> So, it is only valuable for cursors
Right; I can see no rhyme or reason for attaching it to a plain SELECT,
unless the system provides some way of stopping short of fetching all of
a SELECT, which we don't. A CURSOR would be the analogous thing in PG.
regards, tom lane