dblink_close - closes a cursor in a remote database

connname Name of the connection to use; omit this parameter to use the unnamed connection. cursorname The name of the cursor to close. fail_on_error If true (the default when omitted) then an error thrown on the remote side of the connection causes an error to also be thrown locally. If false, the remote error is locally reported as a NOTICE, and the function's return value is set to ERROR.

dblink_close closes a cursor previously opened with dblink_open.

SELECT dblink_connect('dbname=postgres options=-csearch_path='); dblink_connect ---------------- OK (1 row) SELECT dblink_open('foo', 'select proname, prosrc from pg_proc'); dblink_open ------------- OK (1 row) SELECT dblink_close('foo'); dblink_close -------------- OK (1 row) PostgreSQL 17.5 2025 DBLINK_CLOSE(3)

dblink_close - closes a cursor in a remote database

If dblink_open started an explicit transaction block, and this is the last remaining open cursor in this connection, dblink_close will issue the matching COMMIT.

Returns status, either OK or ERROR.

dblink_close(text cursorname [, bool fail_on_error]) returns text dblink_close(text connname, text cursorname [, bool fail_on_error]) returns text