Re: cursor "x" does not exist

From: Bob Jones <r(dot)a(dot)n(dot)d(dot)o(dot)m(dot)d(dot)e(dot)v(dot)4+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: cursor "x" does not exist
Date: 2018-04-14 16:36:41
Message-ID: CA+HuS5GCPy3xchcH5nc2uCZ3jC1SVdxrBtG7N0wXn81n7+TPtw@mail.gmail.com
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On 14 April 2018 at 16:38, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Bob Jones <r(dot)a(dot)n(dot)d(dot)o(dot)m(dot)d(dot)e(dot)v(dot)4+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> My apologies if I'm being incredibly stupid here, but I've reviewed
>> what the docs have to say about naming portals and I still can't see
>> where I'm going wrong here ?
>
> I think you're forgetting to double-quote an upper case identifier.
>
>> FETCH ALL IN B;
>> ERROR: cursor "b" does not exist
>
> The cursor is named "B" not "b", but B without quotes folds to the latter.
>
> regards, tom lane

Thank you tom for showing me the error in my ways.

Now where's that dunce cap gone ? Maybe I don't deserve to use
anything better than MySQL. ;-)

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