Thanks Roman for sticking with me on this!
For whatever reason I cannot load another langage, I think it has to do
with recompiling the program and installing all the options. Not sure
though?? LANGUAGE plpgsql doesn't exist for me.
I still find this cursor limitation wacked. I find it hard to believe
that nobody else is requiring this curosr funcionality. Why else have
a cursor?
See the bottom from this link
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7/interactive/sql-fetch.htm Even in
there is display of a teaser that it can be done. Too bad there is no
example.
My objective is to look at each record one at at time from top to
bottom. I need to take that information in variable form, and run it
through a routine that is in the cursor block, then the end result
needs to end up in another table. There will be times where I will
also need to scroll forward and backward.
I do understand, even though I don't agree with PostgreSQl approach to
this, that my only alternative is to create a function. But as you
know getting a function to work in the way I need it to will require
custom functions. What a pain!
