On 11/16/17 07:04, legrand legrand wrote:
> We are just opening the "close cursors on/at commit" specification ;o)
>
> - MS SQL server: cursor_close_on_commit
> - Firebird: close_cursors_at_commit
> - DB2: "with hold" syntax
> - ...
>
> I think it a plus to support keeping opened cursors at commit time,
> but impacts have to be checked in details ...
I think the facilities to support this in PostgreSQL are already there.
We'd just have to tweak PL/pgSQL to make some of its internal portals
"held" and then clean them up manually at some later point. So I think
this is a localized detail, not a fundamental problem.
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