Re: Move cursor - Mailing list pgsql-general

From FERREIRA William (COFRAMI)
Subject Re: Move cursor
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In response to Move cursor  ("FERREIRA William (COFRAMI)" <william.ferreira@airbus.com>)
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does i hope that CURSOR will be fully implemented soon ?
(or maybe you know an alternative for my problem ? :) )

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Michael Fuhr [mailto:mike@fuhr.org]
Envoyé : mardi 8 mars 2005 18:29
À : Tom Lane
Cc : FERREIRA William (COFRAMI); pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Objet : Re: [GENERAL] Move cursor

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> > I don't think PL/pgSQL implements cursors fully.
>
> Its cursor facility is certainly far weaker than what's presently in the
> main SQL language.  I think this is at least partly historical accident
> (ie we upgraded the main language and forgot about plpgsql).

Would adding MOVE to PL/pgSQL be a fairly trivial effort?  If so
then I'd consider having a go at it myself, unless it's something
somebody else could bang out in five minutes (and was willing to
do so).

--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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