Re: [GENERAL] Scrolling cursors in PL/PgSQL

On 01/11/2007, Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is there a way to scroll a cursor from within PL/PgSQL?
>
> I tried EXECUTE, but:
>
> ERROR:  cannot manipulate cursors directly in PL/pgSQL
> HINT:  Use PL/pgSQL's cursor features instead.
>
> The idea would be that PL/pgsql function would look
> through (all) query results, then rewind the cursor and
> finally return it.
>
> My fellow developers have created a function which run
> the (complex) query twice (first a count(*) on the result
> set, then return the row count and cursor to the results.
> Then they created a version which uses temporary
> table as a placeholder for the query results, and results
> count and a pointer to select * from tmp_table.
>
> Now I imagined a function which would open the cursor,
> MOVE FORWARD ALL, then MOVE ABSOLUTE 0;
> and return count and a cursor, yet it seems it won't work.
>
> Any other idea how to efficiently solve such a problem?
>

Hello

PostgreSQL 8.3 allows scrollable cursors in plpgsql

Regards
Pavel Stehule