On 31/08/2009 18:00, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> Presuming that you are talking about a function written in
> PL/pgSQL, you will have to count them yourself or issue a
> second query "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [...]". For the special
> case that you want to find out whether no row at all was
> found, you can look at "IF (NOT) FOUND".
In pl/pgsql you can also issue a GET DIAGNOSTICS command which gets the
row count:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-DIAGNOSTICS
...although it is still has to be done as a second query, as in your
suggestions above.
Ray.
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