Re: Cursors and transactions

Oliver Jowett wrote:
> I'm planning on doing the same at some point but I'm short on time at
> the moment. Could you drop me an email if you make any progress on
> this?

Will do.  Since I'm not familiar with the drivers or their direction, I plan
to post a few first-cut attempts for comments before I go and spend eternity
writing something that no one else wants.

> This is completely unrelated to using backend cursors .. it's to do
> with JDBC's support for named cursors that can later be used for a
> positioned UPDATE, which postgresql doesn't support at all.
>
> Actually that whole bit of code could be toasted as we don't claim to
> support positioned update in our metadata anyway..

Okay.  I will ignore it for now, then.  It doesn't seem to be used in the same
context as the portals that I'm planning to work with anyway.

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