<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >CLOSE</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="CHECKPOINT" HREF="sql-checkpoint.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="CLUSTER" HREF="sql-cluster.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-checkpoint.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-checkpoint.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-cluster.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-cluster.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-CLOSE" ></A >CLOSE</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN37898" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >CLOSE -- close a cursor</DIV ><A NAME="AEN37901" ></A ><A NAME="AEN37903" ></A ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN37906" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >CLOSE <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT ></PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37909" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >CLOSE</TT > frees the resources associated with an open cursor. After the cursor is closed, no subsequent operations are allowed on it. A cursor should be closed when it is no longer needed. </P ><P > Every non-holdable open cursor is implicitly closed when a transaction is terminated by <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >COMMIT</TT > or <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ROLLBACK</TT >. A holdable cursor is implicitly closed if the transaction that created it aborts via <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ROLLBACK</TT >. If the creating transaction successfully commits, the holdable cursor remains open until an explicit <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >CLOSE</TT > is executed, or the client disconnects. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37918" ></A ><H2 >Parameters</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name of an open cursor to close. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37926" ></A ><H2 >Notes</H2 ><P > <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > does not have an explicit <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >OPEN</TT > cursor statement; a cursor is considered open when it is declared. Use the <A HREF="sql-declare.html" ><I >DECLARE</I ></A > statement to declare a cursor. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37932" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P > Close the cursor <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >liahona</TT >: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >CLOSE liahona;</PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37937" ></A ><H2 >Compatibility</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >CLOSE</TT > is fully conforming with the SQL standard. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37941" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><A HREF="sql-declare.html" ><I >DECLARE</I ></A >, <A HREF="sql-fetch.html" ><I >FETCH</I ></A >, <A HREF="sql-move.html" ><I >MOVE</I ></A ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-checkpoint.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-cluster.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >CHECKPOINT</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >CLUSTER</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >