On 16/05/12 09:06, Ottavio Campana wrote:
> I am writing a small python script and I'd like to get the output I
> would get as if I executed the commands from psql. Let's make an
> example, suppose you have a small table such as
>
> create table xxx_test (
> id serial,
> description text);
>
> and that you perform this command in psql
>
> mydb=# INSERT INTO xxx_test values (default, 'ciao');
> INSERT 0 1
> mydb=#
>
> In python I do
>
> cursor = connection.cursor ()
> cursor.execute (command)
> connection.commit ()
>
> with command being the insert command. Now the question is: is there a
> way to get the "INSERT 01" back?
You can't because that's generated by psql on the client and it isn't
from the server. You can get the number of affected rows from the
cursor, after the .execute().
federico
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