On 10/28/2013 3:58 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> The docs do a good job of illustrating:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/plpgsql-cursors.html
thats for cursors created within a plpgsql function.
I think what the OP wants is a top level cursor, which is a different
thing...
see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-declare.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-fetch.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-close.html
the fetch page shows an example of the complete usage in the context of
a database transaction.
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