ete when using extended query
    protocol &mdash; any cursor can be treated as either text or binary.
   </P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
><P
>    Unless <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>WITH HOLD</TT
> is specified, the cursor
    created by this command can only be used within the current
    transaction.  Thus, <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DECLARE</TT
> without <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>WITH
    HOLD</TT
> is useless outside a transaction block: the cursor would
    survive only to the completion of the statement.  Therefore
    <SPAN
