On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 at 17:49, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Dave Cramer <davecra...@gmail.com> writes: > > Obviously I am biased by the JDBC API which would like to have > > PreparedStatement.execute() return the number of rows inserted > > without having to wait to read all of the rows returned > > Umm ... you do realize that we return the rows on-the-fly? > I do realize that.
> The server does not know how many rows got inserted/returned > Well I haven't looked at the code, but it seems unintuitive that adding the returning clause changes the semantics of insert. until it's run the query to completion, at which point all > the data has already been sent to the client. There isn't > any way to return the rowcount before the data, and it wouldn't > be some trivial protocol adjustment to make that work differently. > (What it *would* be is expensive, because we'd have to store > those rows somewhere.) > I wasn't asking for that, I just want the number of rows inserted. Thanks, Dave
