From 13b0852619d005d593abd76d201143ff37ec6aa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Borzenkov <snaury@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:29:58 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow using named with hold cursors in autocommit

---
 psycopg/cursor_type.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/psycopg/cursor_type.c b/psycopg/cursor_type.c
index a4751760..40dbaef0 100644
--- a/psycopg/cursor_type.c
+++ b/psycopg/cursor_type.c
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ psyco_curs_execute(cursorObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)
                 "can't call .execute() on named cursors more than once");
             return NULL;
         }
-        if (self->conn->autocommit) {
+        if (self->conn->autocommit && !self->withhold) {
             psyco_set_error(ProgrammingError, self,
                 "can't use a named cursor outside of transactions");
             return NULL;