On 08/24/2012 12:34 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> you can't mix planned and unplanned statements together - think about
> stored plans every time
Thanks Pavel and Jeff.
I can't say I fully understand the arguments, but I'll take it that
accepting cursors in CTEs or subqueries wouldn't make sense. I guess the
main issue really is that you'd have to materialize them anyway to avoid
issues with multiple scans, so there's little point having a cursor.
I didn't find a reasonable way to simply fetch a cursor into a (possibly
temporary) table, like:
INSERT INTO sometable FETCH ALL FROM somecursor;
... which could be handy with PL/PgSQL functions that return multiple
refcursors. It only seems to be possible via a PL/PgSQL wrapper that
loops over the cursor and returns a rowset.
--
Craig Ringer
