Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:11 PM, mark <dvlhntr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> the 4th bullet point says....
>>
>> "Have SELECT and CREATE TABLE AS return row counts to the client
>> (Boszormenyi Zoltan)
>>
>> after asking around on #postgresql was wondering if it should read
>> "Have SELECT INTO and ..."
> The release notes as written are correct. Plain old SELECT (without
> SELECT INTO) also returns the number of tuples in the command tag.
> But psql does not display it. See src/bin/psql/command.c, in
> PrintQueryResults, about 15 lines down from the top of the function.
Or more to the point, see the patch being described:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-02/msg00203.php
regards, tom lane