Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> It seems that in the new PL/Perl, the result of the spi_exec_query
>> function changes in meaning depending on the command. For a SELECT,
>> the value of
>>
>> $res->{rows}
>>
>> is a reference to an array of the result rows.
>>
>> For a different command
>>
>> $res->{rows}
>>
>> is a scalar containing the number of affected rows. I think this is
>> a poor design. Couldn't we have a different result field that always
>> contains the number of rows?
>>
>>
>
> I don't recall seeing any reply to this, but I'm inclined to agree
> with it.
>
> Joshua, any comment from CP?
I would agree that seems a little odd ;). Would this be something we
want done for 8.0?
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
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