diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7f516e94..ef8cf6b1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2005-10-22 Federico Di Gregorio <fog@initd.org>
+2005-10-22  Federico Di Gregorio  <fog@initd.org>
 
 	* psycopg/cursor_type.c: added support for named cursors:
 	  - .fetchXXX() methods now execute a FETCH if the cursor is named
diff --git a/examples/fetch.py b/examples/fetch.py
index 67818d28..dab0a412 100644
--- a/examples/fetch.py
+++ b/examples/fetch.py
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ conn.commit()
 # (remember to always commit or rollback before a DECLARE)
 #
 # we don't need to DECLARE ourselves, psycopg now support named
-# cursor (but we leave the code here, comments, as an example of
+# cursors (but we leave the code here, comments, as an example of
 # what psycopg is doing under the hood)
+#
 #curs.execute("DECLARE crs CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM test_fetch")
 #curs.execute("FETCH 10 FROM crs")
 #print "First 10 rows:", flatten(curs.fetchall())
diff --git a/sandbox/named.py b/sandbox/named.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d21a0cf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sandbox/named.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import psycopg2
+import psycopg2.extensions
+
+class Portal(psycopg2.extensions.cursor):
+    def __init__(self, name, curs):
+        name = '"'+name+'"'
+        psycopg2.extensions.cursor.__init__(self, curs.connection, name)
+        
+CURSOR = psycopg2.extensions.new_type((1790,), "CURSOR", Portal)
+psycopg2.extensions.register_type(CURSOR)
+
+conn = psycopg2.connect("dbname=test")
+
+curs = conn.cursor()
+curs.execute("SELECT reffunc2()")
+portal = curs.fetchone()[0]
+print portal.fetchone()
+portal.scroll(-1)
+print portal.fetchall()
+
+
+#print curs.rowcount
+#print curs.statusmessage
+#print curs.fetchone()
+#print curs.rowcount
+#print curs.statusmessage
+#print curs.fetchone()
+#print curs.rowcount
+#print curs.statusmessage