Re: [HACKERS] ecpg stuff

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su (Vadim B. Mikheev)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-development)
Date: 1998-02-18T15:08:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> Meskes, Michael wrote:
> > 
> > Or we should change the declare/open behaviour in that it ignores the
> > embedded SQL declare command and just sends the declare command when it
> > finds an open. But then standard may say that the actual way is correct.
> 
> It seems that OPEN is in standard and this is really bad that we havn't
> OPEN statement: using DECLARE we could plan query once and then 
> re-use this plan many times - OPEN, FETCH-es, CLOSE; OPEN, ...
> Also, we could use queries with parameters (like in SQL-funcs: $1, ...)
> in DECLARE and then assign parameter' values in OPEN and execute
> cursor for different values.
> Isn't this what Oracle allow ?

Yes, I agree we should have it, and allow cursors outside transactions
with OPEN/CLOSE behavior.

Added to TODO.

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us