Re: getting the number of rows affected by a query - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ow Mun Heng
Subject Re: getting the number of rows affected by a query
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Msg-id 1195203820.29253.41.camel@neuromancer.home.net
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In response to getting the number of rows affected by a query  (Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 09:00 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I'm trying to do some periodic updates from another DB and would like to
> know the # of updates/inserts/deletes from that job.
>
> I usually write a function which gets/uses the GETS DIAGNOSTIC ROW COUNT
> parameter which will tell me how many rows were affected by the query.
>
> Now, for this case, I'm not writing a function but merely using a normal
> SQL eg:
>
> BEGIN;
>
> DELETE FROM foo where (x) = (select x from foobar);
>
> INSERT INTO foo select * from foobar;
>
> -- then I would like to update a log_table
> -- eg: insert into log(proc,tablname,ins_row,delete_rows)
> --      values ('update','foo',XXX,YYY)
>
> COMMIT;
>
> Is there a way to do this?

Hmm.. no response..
and I've yet to be able to find out how to get this done.
Would really appreciate some help..



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