On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 12:12, Tom Lane wrote: > Hm? As of CVS tip, SCROLL most definitely does something.
Sorry -- I noticed that it doesn't actually effect whether you can do backward fetches on the cursor, which is what I should have said. > (No problem here with adding the noise-word option, of course.) Note that it won't be a noise word: if NO SCROLL is specified, an attempt to do a backward fetch on a non-scrollable cursor will yield an error. > > Should we change this behavior to be spec compliant, or default to > > SCROLL if neither is specified? > > We already had that discussion. Fair enough (I must have been sleeping :-) ). That behavior seems reasonable to me. Cheers, Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster