Re: Getting a count from an update

> Newbie question here: I want to be able to capture the count of the
> number of rows updated from an update command within SQL. I know that
> psql prints out the result, I want to grab it within a function. The
> update is a simple "UPDATE tablename SET col = value WHERE othercol =
> otherval;", which will generally update many dozens or hundreds of
> rows. Currently I'm doing a select before doing the update, but since
> I'm doing a select count(*) I can't add a 'for update' to the end and
> lock the rows. Is there a better way to do this?

Maybe you can use the new "returning" syntax to your query can get to count of rows affected.

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.