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# 53.7. pg\_cursors \#

The `pg_cursors` view lists the cursors that are currently available. Cursors can be defined in several ways:

* via the [`DECLARE`](/reference/sql-commands/sql-declare.md) statement in SQL
* via the Bind message in the frontend/backend protocol, as described in [Section 54.2.3](/internals/protocol/protocol-flow.md#PROTOCOL-FLOW-EXT-QUERY)
* via the Server Programming Interface (SPI), as described in [Section 45.1](/server-programming/spi/spi-interface.md)

The `pg_cursors` view displays cursors created by any of these means. Cursors only exist for the duration of the transaction that defines them, unless they have been declared `WITH HOLD`. Therefore non-holdable cursors are only present in the view until the end of their creating transaction.

## Note

Cursors are used internally to implement some of the components of PostgreSQL, such as procedural languages. Therefore, the `pg_cursors` view might include cursors that have not been explicitly created by the user.

**Table 53.7. `pg_cursors` Columns**

| <p>Column Type</p><p>Description</p>                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| <p><code>name</code> <code>text</code></p><p>The name of the cursor</p>                                                                                                                                                       |
| <p><code>statement</code> <code>text</code></p><p>The verbatim query string submitted to declare this cursor</p>                                                                                                              |
| <p><code>is\_holdable</code> <code>bool</code></p><p><code>true</code> if the cursor is holdable (that is, it can be accessed after the transaction that declared the cursor has committed); <code>false</code> otherwise</p> |
| <p><code>is\_binary</code> <code>bool</code></p><p><code>true</code> if the cursor was declared <code>BINARY</code>; <code>false</code> otherwise</p>                                                                         |
| <p><code>is\_scrollable</code> <code>bool</code></p><p><code>true</code> if the cursor is scrollable (that is, it allows rows to be retrieved in a nonsequential manner); <code>false</code> otherwise</p>                    |
| <p><code>creation\_time</code> <code>timestamptz</code></p><p>The time at which the cursor was declared</p>                                                                                                                   |

<br>

The `pg_cursors` view is read-only.

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原文：[PostgreSQL 18.6 Documentation](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/view-pg-cursors.html)（英文原文，待翻譯）


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