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-ERROR: Named portals may only be used in begin/end transaction blocks
+ERROR: DECLARE CURSOR may only be used in begin/end transaction blocks
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<para>
String representation is architecture-neutral whereas binary
- representation can differ between different machine architectures
- and <emphasis><productname>Postgres</productname> does not resolve
+ representation can differ between different machine architectures.
+ <emphasis><productname>Postgres</productname> does not resolve
byte ordering or representation issues for binary cursors</emphasis>.
Therefore, if your client machine and server machine use different
representations (e.g., "big-endian" versus "little-endian"),