Re: DECLARE CURSOR

On Saturday 16 November 2002 09:29 pm, Frank Miles wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, snpe wrote:
> > Hello,
> > When I call DECLARE CURSOR out of transaction command success,
> > but cursor is not created
> > Reference manual say that this get error :
> > ERROR: DECLARE CURSOR may only be used in begin/end transaction blocks
> > I don't find this text in pgsql source code
> > What is problem ?
>
> According to the documentation for DECLARE CURSOR (v.7.2.x):
>
> "Cursors are only available in transactions. Use to BEGIN, COMMIT and
> ROLLBACK to define a transaction block."
>
> This seems consistent with your error message. Please try
> wrapping your DECLARE inside a transaction using BEGIN,...
>

I understand it.
I don't understand why 'DECLARE CURSOR' success out of a transaction
- I expect error

regards
haris peco