From 7b614c78be50a3a1ababa5ff810640fcc5829194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 13:16:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc: adjust DECLARE docs to mention FOR UPDATE behavior Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8dc63ba7-dc56-fc7c-fc16-4fae03e3bfe6@2ndquadrant.com Author: Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane, me Backpatch-through: 9.3 --- doc/src/sgml/ref/declare.sgml | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/declare.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/declare.sgml index 5cb85cc568..864c3d75f7 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/declare.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/declare.sgml @@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ DECLARE name [ BINARY ] [ INSENSITI and not use grouping or ORDER BY). Cursors that are not simply updatable might work, or might not, depending on plan choice details; so in the worst case, an application might work in testing - and then fail in production. + and then fail in production. If FOR UPDATE is + specified, the cursor is guaranteed to be updatable.