On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 11:56 +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > The key is getting the "cursor". Once you have a cursor you can do inserts, > > updates and deletes, like > Huh ? Pardon me ? Doing inserts, updates and deletes via a > cursor ? The PostgreSQL documentation clearly says that the > <query> part of a cursor definition must be a SELECT: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/sql-declare.html > > (I am well aware that SELECT queries may have side > effects that change data in the backend such as in > "select add_new_customer()" etc.) > BTW, look at this page (with the Oracle driver): http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2/dco2doc cursor.execute("INSERT INTO TEST (name, id) VALUES (:name, :id)", name="Matt Kromer", id="1") I believe there are databases that allow you to send SQL statements (any kind, not only SELECTs) only in a cursor (either implicit or explicit), hence the name for the cursor object. .TM. -- ____/ ____/ / / / / Marco Colombo ___/ ___ / / Technical Manager / / / ESI s.r.l. _____/ _____/ _/ Colombo@xxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
