Tom Lane wrote: > SQL92 has this under Leveling Rules: > > 1) The following restrictions apply for Intermediate SQL: > > a) A <declare cursor> shall not specify INSENSITIVE. > > b) If an <updatability clause> of FOR UPDATE with or without > a <column name list> is specified, then neither SCROLL nor > ORDER BY shall be specified. > > So SCROLL with FOR UPDATE is a Full-SQL-only feature. (In SQL99 it's > broken out as Feature F831-01, but that doesn't tell you much about > how hard it is or whether most implementations have it.)
Oh, ok then. > I don't feel particularly bad about not supporting every such feature. > I think Simon's recommendation is definitely the way to go for 8.3 --- > if anyone is motivated to relax the restriction in the future, they can > figure out how to resolve the corner cases then. Ok. Looking at what you committed, I completely misunderstood what you were saying earlier. Yeah, let's leave it like that for now. A nice "not supported" error message is perfectly fine, as long as we can avoid the unexpected behavior. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
