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From: Russell Simpkins <russellsimpkins@hotmail.com>
To: Bo Lorentsen <bl@netgroup.dk>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Number of rows in a cursor ?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:36:29 -0400
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> neil.saunders@accenture.com wrote:
>
>>You cannot count the number of rows in a cursor, unfortunately. I recently 
>>ran in to this problem.
>>
> How sad, then I have to repeat the query, first for counting and last for 
> data fetch :-(
>
> /BL
>

If you need a count, why not just execute one of the methods to get a count. 
i.e.e select count(id) ... 



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