Re: [PATCH] Return command tag 'REPLACE X' for CREATE OR REPLACE statements.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return command tag 'REPLACE X' for CREATE OR REPLACE statements.
Date: 2011-01-14 14:24:55
Message-ID: 1295014817-sup-5347@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie ene 14 08:40:07 -0300 2011:

> Also, I don't really like the way this spreads knowledge of the
> completionTag out all over the backend. I think it would be better to
> follow the existing model used by the COPY and COMMIT commands,
> whereby the return value indicates what happened and
> standard_ProcessUtility() uses that to set the command tag.

Yeah, that looks ugly. However it's already ugly elsewhere: for example
see PerformPortalFetch. I am not sure if it should be this patch's
responsability to clean that stuff up. (Maybe we should decree that at
least this patch shouldn't make the situation worse.)

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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