Re: cursors outside transactions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: cursors outside transactions
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Msg-id 16839.1047967243@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: cursors outside transactions  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: cursors outside transactions  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Why don't you like (1)?  It seems fine to me, and I don't see how we are
> magically going to do any better in the future.

The restrictions of (1) seem pretty obvious to me ... but I don't
see any prospect of doing better in the near future, either.
Cross-transaction cursors are a *hard* problem for us.

The question here is do we want to offer a half-baked solution,
recognizing that it's some improvement over no solution at all?
Or do we feel it doesn't meet our standards?

I could be talked into seeing it either way ...
        regards, tom lane


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