On 12/21/12 4:49 PM, I wrote:
On 12/21/12 4:39 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
What is the use-case for this?

Currently, the way to do this would be something like:

I realize I didn't really answer the question.

The use case is when you're UPDATEing or DELETEing a row and you want to quickly assert that there should be exactly one row. For example, if you've previously locked a row with SELECT .. FOR UPDATE, and now you want to UPDATE or DELETE it, it better be there (or you have a bug somewhere).


Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja



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