52.6. pg_cursors

52.6. `pg_cursors`
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The pg_cursors view lists the cursors that are currently available. Cursors can be defined in several ways:

via the DECLARE statement in SQL
via the Bind message in the frontend/backend protocol, as described in Section 53.2.3
via the Server Programming Interface (SPI), as described in Section 45.1

The pg_cursors view displays cursors created by any of these means. Cursors only exist for the duration of the transaction that defines them, unless they have been declared WITH HOLD . Therefore non-holdable cursors are only present in the view until the end of their creating transaction.

Note

Cursors are used internally to implement some of the components of PostgreSQL , such as procedural languages. Therefore, the pg_cursors view might include cursors that have not been explicitly created by the user.

Table 52.6. pg_cursors Columns

Column Type Description
`name` `text` The name of the cursor
`statement` `text` The verbatim query string submitted to declare this cursor
`is_holdable` `bool` `true` if the cursor is holdable (that is, it can be accessed after the transaction that declared the cursor has committed); `false` otherwise
`is_binary` `bool` `true` if the cursor was declared `BINARY` ; `false` otherwise
`is_scrollable` `bool` `true` if the cursor is scrollable (that is, it allows rows to be retrieved in a nonsequential manner); `false` otherwise
`creation_time` `timestamptz` The time at which the cursor was declared

Column Type

Description

name text

The name of the cursor

statement text

The verbatim query string submitted to declare this cursor

is_holdable bool

true if the cursor is holdable (that is, it can be accessed after the transaction that declared the cursor has committed); false otherwise

is_binary bool

true if the cursor was declared BINARY ; false otherwise

is_scrollable bool

true if the cursor is scrollable (that is, it allows rows to be retrieved in a nonsequential manner); false otherwise

creation_time timestamptz

The time at which the cursor was declared

The pg_cursors view is read-only.

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