Thanks for the quick reply. Couple questions:
- when is 7.4 expected?
- what is the overhead in declaring a cursor scroll? time? space?
thanks
-w
--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> <washingtonirving@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Under some cases, using cursors and the fetch and move commands don't
> > work as expected.
>
> Moving backwards in complex queries (anything more complex than a single
> table scan) doesn't work reliably in releases before 7.4. In 7.4 you
> can do it, but you'll usually have to specifically declare the cursor
> as SCROLL ... and eat the ensuing overhead ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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