Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I think it should return "EXECUTE" with the counts from the commands.
> > Does that make sense?
>
> No. It would break client libraries, which only expect command tags
> INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE to be followed by counts. Also, INSERT has two
> numbers associated with it, the others only one; if we allow both those
> cases for EXECUTE then life gets even worse for the client library.
It is easy to determine what tag to return? Remember the discussion on
rules and that only the original tag should be returned. Is there
always one obvious tag to an execute?
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