On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On sön, 2012-03-18 at 21:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> If we were going to change the output at all, I would vote for "CREATE >> TABLE nnnn" so as to preserve the rowcount functionality. Keep in >> mind though that this would force client-side changes, for instance in >> libpq's PQcmdTuples(). Fixing that one routine isn't so painful, but >> what of other client-side libraries, not to mention applications? > > Doesn't seem worth it to me. At least, "SELECT nnnn" makes some sense: > nnnn rows were selected. "CREATE TABLE nnnn" means what? nnnn tables > were created? > > What might make sense is to delegate this additional information to > separate fields in a future protocol revision.
I think that we would not have bothered to add the row count to the command tag output for SELECT unless it were useful. It seems to be *more* useful for CTAS than for SELECT; after all, SELECT also returns the actual rows. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
