Re: [PATCH] Provide rowcount for utility SELECTs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
> Tom Lane �rta:
>> It's more the possibility of doing strcmp(tag, "SELECT") on the command

> Actually it's strncmp(tag, "SELECT ", 7), so when you mix old server
> with new clients or new server with old client, it will just work as
> before, i.e. return "".

Are you deliberately ignoring the point?  We have no way to know whether
there is any client-side code that's doing a simple check for SELECT
command tag, but it's certainly possible.  The fact that it wouldn't be
hard to fix does not mean that it wouldn't be broken.
        regards, tom lane