Thread: PL/pgSQL & Cursors

I have been playing around with the PL/pgSQL stuff, and I have
been having trouble getting cursors to work inside my PL/pgSQL
functions.  Reading through the documentation, I see that:

(1) cursors must occur inside a transaction, and
(2) PL/pgSQL functions cannot start or end a transaction

Does this mean there is no way to use cursors inside a
PL/pgSQL function?

Any help would be appreciated.

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> I have been playing around with the PL/pgSQL stuff, and I have
> been having trouble getting cursors to work inside my PL/pgSQL
> functions.  Reading through the documentation, I see that:
>
> (1) cursors must occur inside a transaction, and
> (2) PL/pgSQL functions cannot start or end a transaction
   Maybe  it's  only the parser of PL/pgSQL. But AFAIK there are   also problems with using  named  portals  over  SPI
(what a   cursor is).
 
   There  are other things I want to do on PL/pgSQL after 7.0 is   out.  So I'll give it a try then.


Jan

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