Re: creating WITH HOLD cursors using SPI

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:39:40PM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2005-06-12 14:54:47 +0530, ams@oryx.com wrote:
> >
> > The idea is to have spi_query call SPI_prepare/SPI_open_cursor,
> > and have an spi_fetchrow that calls SPI_cursor_fetch. It works
> > well enough, but I don't know how to reproduce spi_exec_query's
> > error handling (it runs the SPI_execute in a subtransaction).
> 
> One possibility would be to make plperl_call_handler create the
> internal subtransaction, so that all of the perl code runs inside
> it. But I'm not sure if that would actually work, especially if one
> of the SPI functions failed. But I can't think of what else to do,
> either.
> 
> Thoughts?

I have some :)

If we figure this out for PL/Perl, the general method will be
applicable to PL/YourFavoriteLanguage, so even if you're not a fan of
Perl, it's worth looking into.

Cheers,
D
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