Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... No problem. I've attached a manual session illustrating cursor usage. ;; I posted the source to `pg-util-query-results' yesterday. It is ;; written in Lisp and iterates over all returned tuples and fields. (setq P (pq-connectdb "dbname=japanese port=25432")) #<PGconn localhost:25432 steve/japanese> (pq-set-client-encoding P "MULE_INTERNAL") 0 (require 'pg-util) pg-util (let (R result) (pq-exec P "BEGIN;") (setq R (pq-exec P "DECLARE a_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM kanji WHERE index < 5 ORDER BY index;")) (when (eq (pq-result-status R) 'pgres::command-ok) (setq R (pq-exec P "FETCH a_cursor;")) (while (and (eq (pq-result-status R) 'pgres::tuples-ok) (= (pq-ntuples R) 1)) (push (pg-util-query-results R) result) (setq R (pq-exec P "FETCH a_cursor;")))) (pq-exec P "END;") result) ((("kanji" "index" "nelson" "strokes" "meaning" "mnemonic" "radical") ("円" "4" "385" "4" "round, yen" "round coins from bank-teller's window" "")) (("kanji" "index" "nelson" "strokes" "meaning" "mnemonic" "radical") ("雨" "3" "6518" "8" "rain" "rain from heavenly clouds" "")) (("kanji" "index" "nelson" "strokes" "meaning" "mnemonic" "radical") ("右" "2" "700" "5" "right" "right hand to the mouth" "")) (("kanji" "index" "nelson" "strokes" "meaning" "mnemonic" "radical") ("一" "1" "1" "1" "one" "one finger" "")))