Re: bidirectional cursors on views - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: bidirectional cursors on views
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Msg-id 19673.1061146619@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to bidirectional cursors on views  (Shachar Shemesh <psql@shemesh.biz>)
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Shachar Shemesh <psql@shemesh.biz> writes:
> When I try to open (using MFC) a non-forward only cursor on a view (i.e. 
> - select * from viewname), I get an error of "attribute ctid not found". 
> There are some chances that this is an ODBC problem, but my research 
> suggests that the dependancy on ctid is created by the database itself.

Your research is faulty --- it's an ODBC issue.

> Can anyone comment about this? Is this problem solveable?

You'd have better luck asking on pgsql-odbc, but my guess is that they
depend on ctid as a (crude) form of unique row identification.
        regards, tom lane


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