> It would have failed if you had run the cursor far enough to fetch one
> of the bad rows.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
The difference is that in one case the query fails and in the other the
FETCH command fails.
Our problem is that if a query succeeds we use a count(*) of that query
to display the result count in the status bar of our application - the
select works but the count(*) fails :-)
When we use this query on MS SQL-Server the query fails directly though
we also use cursors here. So the SQL-Server somehow checks all the data
only for the query -> perhaps because we used a server side cursor.
Will there be any improvements with cursors in PG 8.3?
Thanks a lot tom