Re: Concern about new PL/Perl

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>It seems that in the new PL/Perl, the result of the spi_exec_query 
>function changes in meaning depending on the command.  For a SELECT, 
>the value of
>
>$res->{rows}
>
>is a reference to an array of the result rows.
>
>For a different command
>
>$res->{rows}
>
>is a scalar containing the number of affected rows.  I think this is a 
>poor design.  Couldn't we have a different result field that always 
>contains the number of rows?
>  
>

I don't recall seeing any reply to this, but I'm inclined to agree with it.

Joshua, any comment from  CP?

cheers

andrew