"Laurent Marzullo" <laurent.marzullo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ok so here is the full TEST program I try to run: I think you are running into an issue that was fixed during the 8.0 development cycle. From the CVS logs: 2004-08-01 21:30 tgl Allow DECLARE CURSOR to take parameters from the portal in which it is executed. Previously, the DECLARE would succeed but subsequent FETCHes would fail since the parameter values supplied to DECLARE were not propagated to the portal created for the cursor. In support of this, add type Oids to ParamListInfo entries, which seems like a good idea anyway since code that extracts a value can double-check that it got the type of value it was expecting. Oliver Jowett, with minor editorialization by Tom Lane. So what you are trying to do will work in 8.0 but not in 7.4. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match