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: 2002-11-18T17:38:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Haris Peco wrote:
> On Monday 18 November 2002 03:45 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> great.
> Is it possible with savepoints next :
> when am I in transaction and any command is error - only this command
> is lost and I continue normal ?

Yes, that will be part of it.  I am working on my proposal today.

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