declare.l
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- ." $Header: /usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/declare.l,v 1.5 1998/04/28 18:39:11 momjian Exp $
- .TH FETCH SQL 01/23/93 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
- .SH NAME
- declare - declare a cursor
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- fBdeclarefR cursor_name [ fBbinaryfR ] fBcursor forfR select statement
- .fi
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .BR Declare
- allows a user to create cursors.
- Cursors are only available in transactions.
- .PP
- Normal cursors return data back in ASCII format. Since data is stored
- natively in binary format, the system must do a conversion to produce
- the ASCII format. In addition, ASCII formats are often larger in size
- than binary format. Once the attributes come back in ASCII, often the
- client application then has to convert it to a binary format to
- manipulate it anyway.
- .PP
- fBBinaryfR cursors give you back the data in the native binary
- representation. Thus, binary cursors will tend to be a little faster
- since there's less overhead of conversion.
- .PP
- However, ASCII is architectural neutral whereas binary representation
- can differ between different machine architecture. Thus, if your client
- machine uses a different representation than you server machine, getting
- back attributes in binary format is probably not what you want. Also, if
- your main purpose is displaying the data in ASCII, then getting it back
- in ASCII will save you some effort on the client side.
- .PP
- For an example, see the fetch(l) manual page.
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- fetch(l),
- begin(l),
- commit(l),
- select(l).