Re: PL/pgSQL & Cursors

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> I have been playing around with the PL/pgSQL stuff, and I have
> been having trouble getting cursors to work inside my PL/pgSQL
> functions. Reading through the documentation, I see that:
>
> (1) cursors must occur inside a transaction, and
> (2) PL/pgSQL functions cannot start or end a transaction

Maybe it's only the parser of PL/pgSQL. But AFAIK there are
also problems with using named portals over SPI (what a
cursor is).

There are other things I want to do on PL/pgSQL after 7.0 is
out. So I'll give it a try then.

Jan

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