Re: [BUGS] bug in "fetch" command?

Can someone comment on this? Is is a bug?

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> Your name : Sergey E. Levov
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> Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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> When I declare cursor for select statement without "ORDER BY" clause
> ( select * from <tablename> ), and then attempt to fetch record after
> last record in table, or even just give "fetch all" command,
> all the following "fetch" commands, regardless direction, will return
> an empty result sets.
> If "SELECT" statement has "ORDER BY" clause, all works well.
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> Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
> concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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> Try the following sequence of SQL operators:
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> begin
> declare mycurs cursor for select * from pg_user
> fetch all in mycurs - OK
> fetch backward all in mycurs - fails
> move backward all in mycurs
> fetch all in mycurs - fails
> close mycurs
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> declare mycurs cursor for select * from pg_user order by usename
> fetch all in mycurs - OK
> fetch backward all in mycurs - OK
> move backward all in mycurs
> fetch all in mycurs - OK
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> Regards,
> Sergey Levov (serg(at)informika(dot)ru)
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