Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38442476E49 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:00:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (momjian.navpoint.com [207.106.42.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647DD476DF0 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:59:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.10.1) id g94Fwrs08357; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:58:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200210041558.g94Fwrs08357@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: libpgtcl/pg_execute undocumented feature ? In-Reply-To: To: "Nigel J. Andrews" Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:58:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: "(Gerhard Hintermayer)" , pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200210/9 X-Sequence-Number: 3171 Nigel J. Andrews wrote: > On 4 Oct 2002, (Gerhard Hintermayer) wrote: > > > I was just trying to implement a -numAffected option to pg_result to > > get the number of affected tuples when invoking INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE > > when I saw, that there is already a command that does give me the > > number of affected tuples. Will pg_execute be dropped in uncoming > > releases ? > > I don't see why it would be dropped. > > BTW, I've just noticed you say it's undocumented. I see it listed in > chapter 3 of the Client Interfaces, that's the 'pgtcl - Tcl Binding Library' > chapter for the 7.3 docmentation but not in my copy of the 7.2.1 > documentation. So it's been documented now. Yes, someone already pointed out that doc item was missing so we added it to 7.3. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073