On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 7:50 AM Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 6:09 AM Jaime Casanova
>
> >
> > -- this fails
> > update t2 set i = 5 returning cursor_bug() as c1;
> > ERROR: cursor "c1" already in use
> > CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function cursor_bug() line 6 at OPEN
>
> but that's called as many time as the number of rows in t2 in the same
> transaction. The first row will go fine. For the second row it will
> find c1 is already open. Shouldn't cursor_bug() close c1 at the end?
> Is it intended to be kept open when the function finishes? May be you
> are expecting it to be closed automatically when the function
> finishes. But that's not what is documented at
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/plpgsql-cursors.html.
>
Now that I see it again, after sleeping, I can see you're right! sorry
for the noise
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Jaime Casanova
Director de Servicios Profesionales
SYSTEMGUARDS - Consultores de PostgreSQL
