Re: Cursor

Christophe wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > No, he does need an OPEN.
>
> Really?  I thought that PG didn't use OPEN:
>
> "The PostgreSQL server does not implement an OPEN statement for
> cursors; a cursor is considered to be open when it is declared."
>
>     http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-declare.html
>
It's different in PL/pgSQL.

"Before a cursor can be used to retrieve rows, it must be opened. (This
is the equivalent action to the SQL command DECLARE CURSOR.)"

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/plpgsql-cursors.html


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