On Jun 21, 2009, at 5:07 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

I was just looking at the documentation for cursors command, and noticed that the MOVE command's "direction" argument doesn't seem to have documentation for its possible values.

   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-move.html

I assume that they should be FORWARD and BACKWARD, as the former is used in the example, but in truth I have no idea.

Also, what's the difference between the FROM and IN clauses? Or are they they same thing?

Bah! I now see that these expressions are the same as for FETCH. Something like this would help, I think:

*** move.sgml.~1.31.~   Thu Nov 20 20:39:34 2008
--- move.sgml   Sun Jun 21 17:15:44 2009
***************
*** 40,46 ****
    </para>

    <para>
!    Refer to
     <xref linkend="sql-fetch" endterm="sql-fetch-title">
     for details on syntax and usage.
    </para>
--- 40,47 ----
    </para>

    <para>
! The parameters for <command>MOVE</command> are identical to those for
!    <command>FETCH</command>; refer to
     <xref linkend="sql-fetch" endterm="sql-fetch-title">
     for details on syntax and usage.
    </para>

Thanks,

David

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