On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 8:03 AM Burke, William J Collins <William.Burke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
I encountered the following error when compiling a pgsql function after an upgrade from PostgresSQL 9.3 on RHEL7 to PostgreSQL 12.9 on RHEL8, and could use some help from the community to figure out why.
ERROR: cursor variable must be a simple variable
LINE XX: OPEN vQuery.cursorReturn FOR
^
SQL state: 42804
After looking through the CURSOR documentation for PG9.3 and PG12, I noticed that the following statement is identical for both versions of PostgreSQL:
Per testing on db-fiddle this started reporting an error in v11.
I took a peek but didn't see anything directly affecting this; but quite a bit of technical debt repayment happened that cycle and since the current behavior matches the documentation, and there were/are no test cases for this situation, the behavior change isn't surprising.
I'd accept a bug and backpatch solution here, though, if someone wished to write one. We currently support a version (10) that allows this code to execute, seemingly without issue.
David J.
