Re: getting number of rows updated within a procedure

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 23:27:06 +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
> I'm writing some stuff in PL/pgsql (actually, a lot of stuff). I have a
> question: At various times, it does UPDATEs. Is there a way to tell if
> the UPDATE actually affected any rows or not? I couldn't see how to get
> UPDATE to return anything.

Quoting a recent message by Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>:
:Do a
:
: GET DIAGNOSTICS SELECT PROCESSED INTO <int4_variable>;
:
:directly after an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement and you'll know
:how many rows have been hit.
:
:Also you can get the OID of an inserted row with
:
: GET DIAGNOSTICS SELECT RESULT INTO <int4_variable>;

HTH,
Ray
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