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Re: [PATCH] Provide rowcount for utility SELECTs

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs@cybertec.at>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-29T15:24:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> But it would be broken in very obvious ways, no?  It's not like it would
> be silently broken and thus escape testing ...

Well, if we wanted to adopt that approach, we should add the count to
*all* SELECT tags not just a small subset.  As the patch stands it
seems entirely possible that a breakage would escape immediate notice.

			regards, tom lane