Re: Scroll cursor oddity...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Mike Aubury" <mike(dot)aubury(at)aubit(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Scroll cursor oddity...
Date: 2008-04-01 21:01:38
Message-ID: 14325.1207083698@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> What's implied by that but perhaps not clear is that it's easier to think of
> cursors as being *between* rows rather than *on* rows. I'm not sure the
> standard entirely adopts that model however.

That's an interesting way of thinking about it, but I think it fails
when you consider UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF.

regards, tom lane

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