Re: Bug in PL/pgSQL FOR cursor variant

Excerpts from Heikki Linnakangas's message of lun jun 21 18:29:48 -0400 2010:
> On 22/06/10 00:59, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Excerpts from Heikki Linnakangas's message of lun jun 21 17:47:43 -0400 2010:
> >
> >> Maybe it would be easier to somehow protect the portal then, and throw
> >> an error if you try to close it. We could just mark the portal as
> >> PORTAL_ACTIVE while we run the user statements, but that would also
> >> forbid fetching or moving it. I'm thinking of a new "pinned" state,
> >> which is like PORTAL_READY except that the portal can't be dropped like
> >> in PORTAL_ACTIVE state.
> >
> > Why is it an error to close the portal?
>
> What useful behavior ẃould you expect from closing it?

I don't know; it was you who said that the current behavior mimicked
Oracle.  If it's not useful, then I don't have a problem with your
proposal.

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