Re: cursors

From: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Cesar Alvarez" <c(dot)alvarezx66(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "PGSQL GEneral Mailing list" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: cursors
Date: 2007-11-24 22:23:32
Message-ID: 162867790711241423i6707b240gcefa41c43709a51f@mail.gmail.com
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On 24/11/2007, Cesar Alvarez <c(dot)alvarezx66(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hello every one.
> im trying to make a Loop and i found in the manual this.
>
> FOR <target> IN <query> LOOP
> <statements>
> END LOOP
>
> Can i use cursor instead of the Query in the loop?? ,
> this es more legible than using the open/fetch/close of the cursor.
>
> Regard Cesar Alvarez.

Hello

FOR statement use cursor internally. If you wont to use cursor
explicitly, you have to use WHILE loop.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

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