From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200204130143.g3D1hZZ14081@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: May we use libpgtcl pg_execute? / Was: pg_select...
In-Reply-To: <9365.1015186324@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:43:35 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: ljb <lbayuk@mindspring.com>, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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Doc addition for this applied.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> ljb <lbayuk@mindspring.com> writes:
> > It's easier with pg_execute, since it returns the number of tuples. This
> > new command showed up around PostgreSQL 7.1, and it's still there at 7.2,
> > but still undocumented.  It looks rather useful. ...
> 
> > Since it isn't listed in HISTORY or the documentation, I wonder if it is
> > considered "experimental", or might it be staying around, just waiting for
> > somebody to document it? I would like to know, because there is a bug in
> > the "-oid" code; I have a tiny patch for it if it is going to be supported.
> 
> Looking at the CVS logs, I see that Jan added this command; he should be
> blamed for not having added any documentation.  Feel free to contribute
> a documentation patch ...
> 
> What's wrong with the -oid code?
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
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