Re: Updateable cursors patch

On 5/17/07, Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 5/17/07, FAST PostgreSQL <fastpgs(at)fast(dot)fujitsu(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> > No. It works with scrollable cursors. It will work for cursors/selects
> > which does not put the results in some store, such as WITH hold/group
> > by/order by etc.... But most of these restrictions apply for normal
> > 'Select for update' anyway. (With the order by clause, the
> > implementation is as per the sql standards.)
> >
>
> your patch doesn't work with updatable views because they don't have
> ctid columns....
>
> ERROR: column "ctid" does not exist
> STATEMENT: update vfoo set des_cta = des_cta || ' - prueba' where
> current of foo;
> ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of
> transaction block
>
> is this sane behavior? to accept create cursors for update on views
> and then failing to update "where current of" and rollback the entire
> transaction?
>
> comments?
>

maybe just send a better error message

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Jaime Casanova

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