cursor manipulation

Started by Justinabout 18 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Justin
justin@emproshunts.com

Cursor manipulation with select statements

This is something i did in foxpro and wonder if it is at all possible in
pl/pgSQL. I would create a cursor in foxpro then populate it with
Inserts then after all that was done use a Select statement to do more
manipulation if need be

the Foxpro code would look something like this
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Create Cursor plaything (cname char(10), price n(14,4), qty n(14,4))

For i in SomeArrayofObjects
insert into playting (i.Company, i.Price, i.qty)
end for

Select cName, max(price*qty), avg(price * qty), min(price*avg) from
plaything group by Cname into cursor plaything2
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After a cursor has been created can a Select statement see it or do i
have to create a temp table
thanks

#2Laurenz Albe
laurenz.albe@cybertec.at
In reply to: Justin (#1)
Re: cursor manipulation

Justin wrote:

Cursor manipulation with select statements

This is something i did in foxpro and wonder if it is at all
possible in pl/pgSQL.

Yes, it is. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-cursors.html

Yours,
Laurenz Albe