Re: More on cursors in 7.3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeroen T. Vermeulen
Subject Re: More on cursors in 7.3
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Msg-id 20021208213316.GF68172@xs4all.nl
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In response to Re: More on cursors in 7.3  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: More on cursors in 7.3
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:28:38PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> I believe it is true though that backing up a cursor only works for
> certain plan types (seqscan, indexscan, sort, maybe a couple others).
> That has always been true --- 7.3 is no better nor worse than prior
> releases.

Ah, I didn't know that.  I guess the plan for "select * from pg_tables"
must have changed in 7.3 then.

Is any of this described in the docs somewhere?


Jeroen



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