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authorTom Lane2018-07-12 16:28:43 +0000
committerTom Lane2018-07-12 16:29:03 +0000
commit632b4ae92dc6fb92149e94290760b50744e0bd35 (patch)
tree5cf68bf1e8982d63cbd98c52337d289facd8c58d
parentcd073d8f7043d047c024f0f213c0e9c31b9c0505 (diff)
Doc: minor improvement in pl/pgsql FETCH/MOVE documentation.
Explain that you can use any integer expression for the "count" in pl/pgsql's versions of FETCH/MOVE, unlike the SQL versions which only allow a constant. Remove the duplicate version of this para under MOVE. I don't see a good reason to maintain two identical paras when we just said that MOVE works exactly like FETCH. Per Pavel Stehule, though I didn't use his text. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRAcvSXcNdUGx43bOK1e3NNPbQny7neoTLN42af+8MYWEA@mail.gmail.com
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml24
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
index 5b2aac618e3..d6688e13f48 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
@@ -3196,6 +3196,10 @@ FETCH <optional> <replaceable>direction</replaceable> { FROM | IN } </optional>
<literal>BACKWARD</literal>.
Omitting <replaceable>direction</replaceable> is the same
as specifying <literal>NEXT</literal>.
+ In the forms using a <replaceable>count</replaceable>,
+ the <replaceable>count</replaceable> can be any integer-valued
+ expression (unlike the SQL <command>FETCH</command> command,
+ which only allows an integer constant).
<replaceable>direction</replaceable> values that require moving
backward are likely to fail unless the cursor was declared or opened
with the <literal>SCROLL</literal> option.
@@ -3234,26 +3238,6 @@ MOVE <optional> <replaceable>direction</replaceable> { FROM | IN } </optional> <
</para>
<para>
- The <replaceable>direction</replaceable> clause can be any of the
- variants allowed in the SQL <xref linkend="sql-fetch"/>
- command, namely
- <literal>NEXT</literal>,
- <literal>PRIOR</literal>,
- <literal>FIRST</literal>,
- <literal>LAST</literal>,
- <literal>ABSOLUTE</literal> <replaceable>count</replaceable>,
- <literal>RELATIVE</literal> <replaceable>count</replaceable>,
- <literal>ALL</literal>,
- <literal>FORWARD</literal> <optional> <replaceable>count</replaceable> | <literal>ALL</literal> </optional>, or
- <literal>BACKWARD</literal> <optional> <replaceable>count</replaceable> | <literal>ALL</literal> </optional>.
- Omitting <replaceable>direction</replaceable> is the same
- as specifying <literal>NEXT</literal>.
- <replaceable>direction</replaceable> values that require moving
- backward are likely to fail unless the cursor was declared or opened
- with the <literal>SCROLL</literal> option.
- </para>
-
- <para>
Examples:
<programlisting>
MOVE curs1;
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml
index 5ef63f00583..e802be61c8c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ FETCH [ <replaceable class="parameter">direction</replaceable> [ FROM | IN ] ] <
This page describes usage of cursors at the SQL command level.
If you are trying to use cursors inside a <application>PL/pgSQL</application>
function, the rules are different &mdash;
- see <xref linkend="plpgsql-cursors"/>.
+ see <xref linkend="plpgsql-cursor-using"/>.
</para>
</note>
</refsect1>