Re: DELETING ROW

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Gabriel [iso-8859-1] Lpez Milln wrote:

>
> Hi all.
>
> I'm traying to delete a row of a table. Te code is:
>
> String query = "DELETE FROM " + ID_REQUEST_TABLE + " WHERE id = '" +
> numReq+ "';";
> int result = s.executeUpdate(query);
> System.out.println("result: " + result);
> if(result != 0) {
> .....
> connection.commit();
> }
>
>
> If file do not exists "result" should be "0" (JDBC API), if exists,
> it should be the number of the row that delete. But I always get the
> value "1", always, even if the row to delete is 5,6, ... 10.
>
> I'm using postgresql 7.02 with linux RedHat 6.0 and jdk1.2
>
> Cheers, Gabi.
>

If you read the docs a little more carefully, I think you'll find that
the return value is the number of rows affected by the statement.

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