Re: [GENERAL] DECLARE CURSOR

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Haris Peco <snpe@snpe.co.yu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-11-18T15:45:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Haris Peco wrote:
> On Monday 18 November 2002 02:38 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 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
> It is in TODO list. Can You implement this with savepoint ?

I am planning on doing savepoints for 7.4.

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