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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [GENERAL] DECLARE CURSOR
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Msg-id 28945.1037630339@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] DECLARE CURSOR  (snpe <snpe@snpe.co.yu>)
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snpe <snpe@snpe.co.yu> writes:
>   is it planed cursor out of a transaction in 7.4 ?

I do not think we will allow cross-transaction cursors ever.  What would
it mean to have a cross-transaction cursor, anyway?  Does it show a
frozen snapshot as of the time it was opened?  The usefulness of that
seems awfully low in comparison to the pain of implementing it.
        regards, tom lane

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