Re: [PHP] Re: FTI, paged, ranked searching and efficiency.

Stephen,

> How come nobody's ever thought of cursors?
>
> DECLARE foo CURSOR FOR SELECT stuff FROM stuff WHERE foo ORDER BY
> something;
>
> Hop forward N rows?
>         MOVE FORWARD $n IN foo
>
> Want M rows?
>         FETCH FORWARD $m IN foo

    I'm intrigued by this.  How would I retrieve cursor rows into a web
application?  If we could output a cursor to a functon result (we
can't), it would be easy, but I'm not sure otherwise.

                    -Josh
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