Hi, On Monday 11 June 2007 13:45, Pit M. wrote: | Assume a user doing a query which shall select all customers having a | ZIP in [10000;20000[ by using a CAST. If the cursor now fetches the row | with ID 4 we get an error (invalid input syntax) as "A1234" cannot be | casted as integer. This is ok, BUT now all further FETCH commands fail | with "current transaction is aborted"! | | How can we resume from there with FETCH commands (e.g. at least FETCH | FIRST)? We cannot avoid the (first) error itself, as the user can enter | any WHERE condition at runtime. Therefore we must handle the error - if | any - and resume from there properly. I didn't try myself, but wrapping the whole into a PL/pgSQL function and using exceptions might do the work; http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-ERROR-TRAPPING Ciao, Thomas -- Thomas Pundt <thomas.pundt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ---- http://rp-online.de/ ----