Re: Fix PL/Python metadata when there is no result
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-03-07T22:14:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes: > On ons, 2012-03-07 at 16:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Still, it seems rather arbitrary to say that the row count property is >> the thing to test for that purpose and no other is. Why not return None >> for any property that's not sensible? > Hmm, above you said you were in favor of throwing an error rather than > returning None? I said it was a reasonable alternative, not that it was the only one we should consider. The behavior of .nrows() might be accidental, but perhaps it is a preferable model to adopt. regards, tom lane