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 returns no rows.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
   <title>Return Value</title>

   <para>
    The function returns the row(s) fetched from the cursor.  To use this
    function, you will need to specify the expected set of columns,
    as previously discussed for <function>dblink</function>.
   </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
   <title>Notes</title>

   <para>
    On a mismatch between the number of return columns specified in the
    <literal>FROM</literal> clause, and the actual number of columns returned by the
    remote cursor, an error will be thrown. In this event, the remote cursor
    is still advanced by as many rows as it would have been if the error had
    not occurred.  The same is true for any other error occurring in the local
    query after the remote <command>FETCH</command> has been done.
   </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
   <title>Examples</title>

<screen>
SELECT dblink_connect('dbname=postgres options=-csearch_path=');
 dblink_connect
----------------
 OK
(1 row)

SELECT dblink_open('foo', 'select proname, prosrc from pg_proc where proname like ''bytea%''');
 dblink_open
-------------
 OK
(1 row)

SELECT * FROM dblink_fetch('foo', 5) AS (funcname name, source text);
 funcname |  source
----------+----------
 byteacat | byteacat
 byteacmp | byteacmp
 byteaeq  | byteaeq
 byteage  | byteage
 byteagt  | byteagt
(5 rows)

SELECT * FROM dblink_fetch('foo', 5) AS (funcname name, source text);
 funcname  |  source
-----------+-----------
 byteain   | byteain
 byteale   | byteale
 bytealike | bytealike
 bytealt   | bytealt
 byteane   | byteane
(5 rows)

SELECT * FROM dblink_fetch('foo', 5) AS (funcname name, source text);
  funcname  |   source
------------+------------
 byteanlike | byteanlike
 byteaout   | byteaout
(2 rows)

SELECT * FROM dblink_fetch('foo', 5) AS (funcname name, source text);
 funcname | source
----------+--------
(0 rows)
</screen>
  </refsect1>
 </refentry>

 <refentry id="contrib-dblink-close">
  <indexterm>
   <primary>dblink_close</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <refmeta>
   <refentrytitle>dblink_close</refentrytitle>
   <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
   <refname>dblink_close</refname>
   <refpurpose>closes a cursor in a remote database</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis>
dblink_close(text cursorname [, bool fail_on_error]) returns text
dblink_close(text connname, text cursorname [, bool fail_on_error]) returns text
</synopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
   <title>Description</title>

   <para>
    <function>dblink_close</function> closes a cursor previously opened with
    <function>dblink_open</function>.
   </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
   <title>Arguments</title>

   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>connname</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Name of the connection to use; omit this parameter to use the
       unnamed connection.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>cursorname</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The name of the cursor to close.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>fail_on_error</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       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 <literal>ERROR</literal>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
   <title>Return Value</title>