Network Administrator <netadmin@vcsn.com> writes:
> Quoting Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Commonly this means that you open a "handle" or "cursor" referring to
>> one particular blob and then read or write it through that handle.
> I understand the value of handles but aren't cursors used to break up
> the large result sets from queries?
I was using them to mean the same thing, ie, an I/O handle (or open blob
descriptor if you like). You could consider this to be analogous to an
SQL cursor --- a cursor is like a handle for a query result. Sorry if
I confused you rather than enlightened you.
regards, tom lane