Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 19:17 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: >> The general case cannot be applied for all particular cases. >> E.g. you cannot use cursors from shell scripts
> This could be fixed by adding an option to psql to transparently produce > SELECT result sets via a cursor. Note of course that such a thing would push the incomplete-result problem further upstream. For instance in (hypothetical --cursor switch) psql --cursor -c "select ..." | myprogram there would be no very good way for myprogram to find out that it'd been sent an incomplete result due to error partway through the SELECT. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend