Re: PL/Perl: spi_prepare() and RETURNING

On 8/24/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> 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.

I like adding RETURNING-specific return codes.

> 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?

I think it's a bug.

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