From: | jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) |
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To: | daveh(at)insightdist(dot)com (David Hartwig) |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [SQL] Plpgsql Language Feature? |
Date: | 1999-02-12 01:08:47 |
Message-ID: | m10B768-000EBRC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de |
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> In the context of a plpgsql script is a possible to access the number of
> rows effected by an UPDATE or DELETE statement? It could be used to
> simplify, and probably improve performance on, many scripts. I would
> like to do something like:
>
> update foo set bar = bar + new.amount where key = new.key;
>
> if ROWS_UPDATED > 0 then
> -- This would be less likely to occur
> insert into foo (key, bar) values (new.key, new.bar);
> end if;
Yes, I think this would be a nice feature. Will take a look
if I can add it before v6.5 BETA starts.
Jan
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