Re: Move cursor - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Move cursor
Date
Msg-id 20050308172839.GA95503@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Re: Move cursor  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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).

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

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