Re: Warning for undefined cursor

Peter, you have brought up some good items recently.  Are you going to
handle them or do you want them added to the TODO list or 7.4 open items
list.


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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> In backend/commands/portalcmds.c we have
> 
>         /* FIXME: shouldn't this be an ERROR? */
>         ereport(WARNING,
>                 (errcode(ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_CURSOR),
>                  errmsg("portal \"%s\" does not exist", stmt->portalname)));
> 
> The effect of this is that you can fetch from an undefined cursor and
> (successfully) get zero rows plus this warning.  I propose that we change
> this to an error.  Does anyone see a reason against this, except possibly
> bugward compatibility?
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net
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