From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Ludwig Lim <lud_nowhere_man@yahoo.com>
To: PostgreSQL Mailing List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: plpgsql cursors : dynamic or static?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:21:00 -0700
Message-ID: <200210231121.00113.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021023172118.20960.qmail@web80312.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20021023172118.20960.qmail@web80312.mail.yahoo.com>
Ludwig,
> Are cursors in plpgsql dynamic or static?
>
> For example :
>
> ... /* some code */
> FOR rec in SELECT f1,f2
> FROM table1 WHERE .... LOOP
>
> /* some codes that manipulate table1 */
> END LOOP;
Technically speaking, that is not a cursor, even though it serves the same
purpose.
I'm pretty sure it's static, but it would be easy to test ... why don't you
give it a try?
--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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