RE: bug in cursor FOR loops?

I have seen something like this with application loop that open a new cursor for each iteration of the loop.

Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
adary_at_mehish.co.il

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> From: Paul Baumgartel [SMTP:treegarden_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Mon, January 28, 2002 11:15 PM
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> Subject: bug in cursor FOR loops?
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> Is there a bug (8.1.7.2.0 on HP-UX) in the implementation of cursor FOR
> loops, such that the cursor is not closed upon loop exit? If a
> function containing such a loop is called many times, eventually the
> session returns a "too many open cursors" error; an attempt to close
> the cursor manually after the loop returns "invalid cursor". I've
> searched MetaLink (including bug database) and haven't found anything.
>
> TIA,
>
> Paul Baumgartel
>
>
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