Re: Bug in documentation: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/spi-examples.html

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Curt Kolovson <ckolovson(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bug in documentation: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/spi-examples.html
Date: 2023-07-18 01:22:02
Message-ID: 4114624.1689643322@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:53 PM Curt Kolovson <ckolovson(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> The actual results (shown below) are different than shown on this doc
>> page.

> SPI_exec sees "INSERT 0 2" as the command tag from the SQL command you
> passed and so 2 is the output of the execq function call.
> No INFO messages appear because you did not include a returning clause.
> The 1 you passed to the call is immaterial if the query you supply doesn't
> produce a result set.

I think his point is that this example does not behave as the
documentation claims. Which it does not, according to my
tests here. I find this a bit disturbing --- did we intentionally
change the behavior of SPI_exec somewhere along the line?

regards, tom lane

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