Re: For cursors, there is FETCH and MOVE, why no TELL?

Am 09.02.15 um 11:47 schrieb Marc Balmer:
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> Am 09.02.15 um 10:46 schrieb Heikki Linnakangas:
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>> You could fairly easily write an extension to do that, btw. A C function
>> could call GetPortalByName() and peek into the PortalData.portalPos field.
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> Would
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> PGresult *PQdescribePortal(PGconn *conn, const char *portalName);
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> from libpq also provide this information?  Should there be a way to run
> PQdescribePortal() from psql (e.g. \dP) ??

... and a quickly hacked test program shows that it does *not* return
the cursor position.