From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
Cc: PostgreSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: "WHERE CURRENT OF" Support in libpq Someday?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:18:47 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200408130418.i7D4IlC17044@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <411C4083.8030106@cogeco.ca>
It arrives when someone codes it, maybe 8.1. I think Fujitsu was going
to have someone work on it for 8.1, but I am not sure.
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> I expect that ecpg supports cursors that include functionality
> for constructs like:
>
> UPDATE EMPLOYEES
> SET MARRIED = 'T'
> WHERE CURRENT OF CURSOR_NAME;
>
> but this support seems to be absent in libpq.
>
> Is this being planned for a future release? If so, which
> one?
>
> This is well supported feature by commercial databases (Oracle,
> Sybase, Informix to name a few), but I just don't see any hint
> of it coming to libpq.
>
> TIA, Warren.
>
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>
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