Re: [PATCH] Return command tag 'REPLACE X' for CREATE OR REPLACE statements. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [PATCH] Return command tag 'REPLACE X' for CREATE OR REPLACE statements.
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Msg-id AANLkTikxWrN2nxdrrtMY8kNFzbnnFeYiwrB7ff0Q=-cE@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Return command tag 'REPLACE X' for CREATE OR REPLACE statements.  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie ene 14 08:40:07 -0300 2011:
>
>> Also, I don't really like the way this spreads knowledge of the
>> completionTag out all over the backend.  I think it would be better to
>> follow the existing model used by the COPY and COMMIT commands,
>> whereby the return value indicates what happened and
>> standard_ProcessUtility() uses that to set the command tag.
>
> Yeah, that looks ugly.  However it's already ugly elsewhere: for example
> see PerformPortalFetch.  I am not sure if it should be this patch's
> responsability to clean that stuff up.  (Maybe we should decree that at
> least this patch shouldn't make the situation worse.)

Agreed: it's not the patch's job to clean it up, but it shouldn't make
the situation worse.

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Robert Haas
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