Re: perl use of cursors and fetch forward

dooh.  never mind.

this works if the "begin work;" and "declare ...;" are in separate exec
requests.



On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, John Frank wrote:

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> Can someone tell me how to use Postgres cursors through perl?  A sample is
> below.  Is there some way to keep the transaction active between
> $conn-exec calls?
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> use Pg;
> my $conn = Pg::connectdb("dbname = test");
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> my $result = $conn->exec("begin work; declare c1 cursor for select fld1
> from tbl1 ; ");
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> $result = $conn->exec("fetch forward 1 in c1;");
> print "Hurray, I fetched a row: " . $result->fetchrow . "\n";
>
> $result = $conn->exec("end work;");
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> jrf@roog:~/$ perl test_cursor.pl
> NOTICE:  PerformPortalFetch: portal "c1" not found
> Hurray, I fetched a row:
> NOTICE:  COMMIT: no transaction in progress
> jrf@roog:~/$
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