Re: FETCH in subqueries or CTEs

On 08/24/2012 10:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au> writes:
>> I didn't find a reasonable way to simply fetch a cursor into a (possibly
>> temporary) table, like:
>> INSERT INTO sometable FETCH ALL FROM somecursor;
> Why would you bother with a cursor, and not just INSERT ... SELECT
> using the original query?
I wouldn't. The context - and the reason it's mostly a matter of
curiosity, not something I care about - is that it arose out of
discussion elsewhere on how to work with pre-defined PL/PgSQL functions
that return multiple refcursors.

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Craig Ringer