On Fri, September 15, 2006 19:56, Adriaan van Os wrote:
> Besides, when more than one user is connected, multiple SQL commands may
> behave different than a
> single SQL command
> (<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/transaction-iso.html>)
But you'd be doing this in a transaction anyway: you can't declare a
cursor without starting a transaction first. Yes, you could deliberately
declare "WITH HOLD" and keep using your cursor after commiting or aborting
the transaction. But even then, so far as I know, the cursor presents a
snapshot view of its result set so you get an effective isolation level of
"serializable" even then.
The number of users has nothing to do with the matter--if that were a real
concern, you'd be using a serializable transaction anyway, so you wouldn't
have to worry about it even if cursors did behave as "read committed."
Jeroen