Re: PL/Perl: spi_prepare() and RETURNING

David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
>> I've found a little lacuna in the RETURNING feature, that being in
>> PL/Perl's spi_prepare()/spi_execute_prepared() as illustrated in the
>> attached file on CVS TIP.

It looks like plperl_spi_execute_fetch_result only expects to find
tuples returned if the status is SPI_OK_SELECT. pltcl and plpython
have likely got similar issues.

This reminds me of a consideration I had been intending to bring up on
the mailing lists: what exactly do we want to do with the SPI API for
RETURNING queries? The current behavior is that it still returns
SPI_OK_INSERT and so on, but also creates a SPI_tuptable. Is this
what we want? Perhaps we should invent additional return codes
SPI_OK_INSERT_RETURNING etc.

Another issue I noted in that same area is that spi.c does not set
SPI_processed for a utility statement, even if the utility statement
returns tuples. Is this a bug, or should we leave it alone?

regards, tom lane