Re: DELETE...RETURNING problem with libpq

Hi,

On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 20:35 +0200, Brice André wrote:
> [...]

> Thanks for your answer.
>
> Your example is working fine on my computer too (I had to adapt some
> includes because my client is under Windows, but everything else was
> fine...).
>
> But, this example is slightly different from my real code : in your
> example, the delete on the rule really deletes the element. In my code, the
> delete on the rule tags the element as deleted (with an UPDATE statement
> and a dedicated column in t1 table).
>

Oh OK, I didn't understand that when I was working on the code.

> I slightly changed your example to be more representative of my code. Here
> are my results :
>

>    - When executing the SQL statement from pgadmin, I get my 81 columns

>    marked as deleted and I get the 81 row results to the query.

>    - Whe executing it from your script, the function PQexecPrepared does

>    not return 'PGRES_TUPLES_OK' anymore. It now returns 'PGRES_COMMAND_OK'.

>    - From your program, the 81 rows are marked as deleted, as expected.
>    - From your program, PQntuples returns the "0" string.
>    - I did not try from php, but I expect same behaviour as with my real

>    program...
>
> So, once modified, this example behaves like my program.
>

It does to me too.

> I suppose that php and pgadmin use the same interface to execute the query.
> So, I suppose that there should be a solution to my problem... Do you think
> it's a bug in my version of libpq ? Or maybe is it related to the fact that
> I use prepared statement ?
>

It took me a while to understand the difference between pgadmin/psql and
our little test program. Actually, the difference is that they don't use
PQprepare and PQexecPrepared. I've attached the new code. With
USE_PREPARED_STATEMENT defined at:
 * 0, it will simply do a PQexec of the real query
 * 1, it will do the usual PQprepare/PQexecPrepared
 * 2, it will do PQexec on the PREPARE statement, and PQexec on the
   EXECUTE statement (which is what both pgadmin and psql do)

It works with 0 and 1, not with 2. I still have no idea why. It might be
a bug, but I find it strange it's not been discovered since 8.4 (it also
doesn't work on 9.3 beta 1).

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