"Bob Pawley" <rjpawley(at)shaw(dot)ca> writes:
> Could somebody translate this error message for me??
> "cursor <unnamed portal 1> is not simply updateable scan of table "p_id"
You're trying to do an "UPDATE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor", right?
What it means is that the cursor definition is too complicated for
Postgres to figure out which row to update. Without seeing the
cursor definition it's hard to say more.
regards, tom lane