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Msg-id 20030830222056.74734.qmail@web41015.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: cursor bug  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
Thanks for the quick reply. Couple questions:
- when is 7.4 expected?
- what is the overhead in declaring a cursor scroll? time? space?

thanks
-w

--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> <washingtonirving@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Under some cases, using cursors and the fetch and move commands don't
> > work as expected.
>
> Moving backwards in complex queries (anything more complex than a single
> table scan) doesn't work reliably in releases before 7.4.  In 7.4 you
> can do it, but you'll usually have to specifically declare the cursor
> as SCROLL ... and eat the ensuing overhead ...
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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