A cursor for-loop is a open-fetch-close construct, but
like all cursors on PL/SQL, Oracle does not *really*
close them when it encounters the close call. This is
an efficiency measure to speed things up in the hope
that you will reuse them.
hth
connor
- JOSHY MON M C <JOSHYMON_at_nestec.net> wrote: >
resending the mail. Kindly ignore my prev mail with
> wrong subject.
>
> Hi All,
>
> I ve a stored proceure and with the following cursor
> defined. And after
> running the procedure, i see that No of open cursors
> incresing. I checked
> it querying v$open_cursor like this. ( SELECT
> sql_text from v$open_cursor).
>
> CURSOR all_rules (l_ticket_type_id NUMBER) IS
> SELECT rule_id , workflow_id FROM rule
> WHERE ticket_type_id = l_ticket_type_id
> AND ews_flag=1
> AND active_flag=1;
>
> -- Cusror is processed as below..
> FOR term_rec IN all_terms( p_rule_id ) LOOP
> -- do processing
> END LOOP;
>
> Since I m using CURSOR for stemennet its closed
> automaticaly. right?. But it
> doentnt seem closing as mentioned above ( when
> querried v$open_cursor). pls
> reply
>
> PS:
>
> Also in the stored procedure I use some SELECT
> statements, that too is shown
> when I query open_cursor as above. Do you know why
> no of open cursors
> increasing?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Joshy
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