Re: DECLARE CURSOR

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, snpe wrote:

> Hello,
>   When I call DECLARE CURSOR out of transaction command success,
> but cursor is not created
>   Reference manual say that this get error :
> ERROR: DECLARE CURSOR may only be used in begin/end transaction blocks
>   I don't find this text in pgsql source code
> What is problem ?

According to the documentation for DECLARE CURSOR (v.7.2.x):

"Cursors are only available in transactions. Use to BEGIN, COMMIT and
    ROLLBACK to define a transaction block."

This seems consistent with your error message.  Please try
wrapping your DECLARE inside a transaction using BEGIN,...

HTH--

    -frank