From: "Uwe C. Schroeder" <uwe@oss4u.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: rowcount function in postgres???
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:58:24 -0700
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you could simply write

insert into table_a values (1);
 if found then
       dbms.output.put_line('rows inserted');
 else
       dbms.output.put_line('rows not inserted');
  end if;


If you really need the number of records inserted (found will be true if at 
least one record as affected), you can get that with

GET DIAGNOSTICS num_rows = ROW_COUNT;
and then do the if on the variable num_rows.

Hope that helps

UC


On Saturday 07 April 2007 10:33, Karthikeyan Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I am using 8.1.0 postgres and trying to write a plpgsql block.  In that
> I am inserting a row.  I want to check to see if the row has been inserted
> or not.
>
>   In oracle we can say like this
>
>    begin
>      insert into table_a values (1);
>      if sql%rowcount > 0
>      then
>        dbms.output.put_line('rows inserted');
>      else
>        dbms.output.put_line('rows not inserted');
>     end if;
> end;
>
> Is there something equal to sql%rowcount in postgres?   Please help.
>
> Regards
> skarthi
>
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