Re: [INTERFACES] PL/Python: How do I use result methods?

I wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:
>> Any comments on this? The 8.0.0rc1 PL/Python documentation,
>> Section 39.3 "Database Access", still mentions the nrows and
>> status methods, but they don't work. Here's Oliver's original
>> message and my followup:

>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2004-10/msg00019.php
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2004-10/msg00020.php

> It looks like someone #ifdef'd out those sections after observing that
> the PLy_result_methods table isn't used anyplace. Perhaps the place
> where it should have been used got lost in some earlier patch?

> Just out of curiosity, what sort of patch would it take to enable these
> functions? If it's at all nontrivial I'd vote to hold over to 8.1,
> but if it's a line or two of code that got lost at some point, it would
> seem like a reasonable bug fix ...

Comparing the result and plan method types made it pretty obvious how
those methods are supposed to be hooked up, and it was indeed a
one-liner omission in the original source code. So I've fixed it.

regards, tom lane