Re: Query and the number of row result - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Raymond O'Donnell
Subject Re: Query and the number of row result
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Msg-id 4A9D1848.9090102@iol.ie
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In response to Re: Query and the number of row result  (Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>)
List pgsql-general
On 31/08/2009 18:00, Tim Landscheidt wrote:

> Presuming that you are talking about a function written in
> PL/pgSQL, you will have to count them yourself or issue a
> second query "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [...]". For the special
> case that you want to find out whether no row at all was
> found, you can look at "IF (NOT) FOUND".

In pl/pgsql you can also issue a GET DIAGNOSTICS command which gets the
row count:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-DIAGNOSTICS

...although it is still has to be done as a second query, as in your
suggestions above.

Ray.

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