Re: persistent portals/cursors (between transactions)

From: Florian Wunderlich <fwunderlich(at)devbrain(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: persistent portals/cursors (between transactions)
Date: 2002-01-25 17:44:59
Message-ID: 3C51999B.260171D6@hq.factor3.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> > Isn't that exactly what beginning a transaction and keeping it
> > uncommitted for a long time would do too?
>
> Sure, but then you haven't got a cross-transaction cursor, only a plain
> cursor.

Sorry for being unclear - I wanted to say that this problem obviously
already exists, so there's not a new (conceptual) problem here.

I'm sure you read the second part of my post where I suggested what a
possible solution could look like.

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