Brian Karlak <zenkat(at)metaweb(dot)com> writes:
> My question is this: is there some way that I can keep a cursor /
> pointer / reference / whatever to the row I fetched originally, so
> that I don't have to search for it again when I'm ready to write
> results?
If you don't expect any updates to the row meanwhile, ctid might serve.
regards, tom lane