Christian Traber <christian(at)traber-net(dot)de> writes:
>> Doesn't pg_result provide a way to get that?
> No, pg_result -numTuples only returns the number of found rows of a
> select statement.
Um, you're right; there's no interface to PGcmdTuples in pg_result.
Perhaps there should be. But the short-term answer is to use pg_execute
instead of pg_exec. See
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/pgtcl-pgexecute.html
(this unaccountably escaped being documented before 7.3, but it's
been there since 7.1 or so).
regards, tom lane