AW: selecting from cursor - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Subject AW: selecting from cursor
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Msg-id 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA68796336835A@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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Responses Re: AW: selecting from cursor
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> > That's gonna have to be fixed.  If you're not up for it, don't implement
> > this.  Given that cursors (are supposed to) support FETCH BACKWARDS,
> > I really don't see why they shouldn't be expected to handle ReScan...
> I thought only scrollable cursors can do that. What if cursor isn't
> scrollable? Should it error during the execution?

In PostgreSQL, all cursors are scrollable. The allowed grammar keyword is
simply ignored. I am actually not sure that this is optimal, since there
are a few very effective optimizations, that you can do if you know, that 
ReScan is not needed (like e.g. not storing the result temporarily).

Andreas


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