Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> The alternatives are now to introduce a new function like has_rows()
> that returns True iff result rows exist and therefore result metadata
> can be fetched, or go back to having coltypes() et al. return None when
> no metadata exists. I'm in favor of the latter, because the former
> would add somewhat needless complications and doesn't really add any
> robustness or the like.
Seems sensible to me.
We had better also document what nrows() really does. Should we also
introduce a new function that is "number of rows in the resultset",
rather than depending on len()? I think it might be useful, or at least
consistent, to have a function defined as "number of rows, or None if
the resultset does not contain rows". In particular, I think it is
important to be able to distinguish between a command result (which
cannot possibly contain rows) and a query result that happens to contain
zero rows.
regards, tom lane