Avoided closing the database connection within a transaction.

Refs #9437.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/django/db/backends/__init__.py b/django/db/backends/__init__.py
index 09a33eebae..c797a50733 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/__init__.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/__init__.py
@@ -472,11 +472,13 @@ class BaseDatabaseWrapper(object):
         Context manager that ensures that a connection is established, and
         if it opened one, closes it to avoid leaving a dangling connection.
         This is useful for operations outside of the request-response cycle.
+
+        Provides a cursor: with self.temporary_connection() as cursor: ...
         """
         must_close = self.connection is None
         cursor = self.cursor()
         try:
-            yield
+            yield cursor
         finally:
             cursor.close()
             if must_close: