Re: number of rows in a cursor - Mailing list pgsql-general

Christoffer Gurell wrote:
> After declaring a cursor. Is there any way you can check the number of rows
> that cursor contains ??

    test=> BEGIN;
    BEGIN
    test=> DECLARE xxx CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM pg_class;
    DECLARE CURSOR
    test=> MOVE ALL IN xxx;
    MOVE 184

Yes, you can MOVE ALL in the cursor and look at the return status, in
this case 184 rows.

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