Re: [PATCH] Provide rowcount for utility SELECTs

From: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide rowcount for utility SELECTs
Date: 2010-02-12 18:22:06
Message-ID: 4B759C4E.5060304@cybertec.at
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Robert Haas írta:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
>
>> I added a small change to protocol.sgml for the
>> "CommandComplete" message describing the change.
>> Is it enough?
>>
>
> Ah, I didn't even see that that section needed to be updated. Good
> catch. I'd suggest the following wording:
>
> For a <command>SELECT</command> or <command>CREATE TABLE AS</command>
> command, the tag is SELECT rows... [and the rest as you have it]
>
> We should probably also retitle that section from "Retrieving Result
> Information for Other Commands" to "Retrieving Other Result
> Information" and adjust the text of the opening sentence similarly.
>
> Also I think you need to update the docs for PQcmdtuples to mention
> that it not works for SELECT and CTAS.
>

Ok, I will update libpq.sgml where this section resides.
What's a CTA, btw? Do you mean CTE, a.k.a. "Common Table Expression"?

Thanks,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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