Re: [HACKERS] ecpg problem

Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>

From: Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>
To: "Dr. Michael Meskes" <meskes@online-club.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-08-15T10:27:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Dr. Michael Meskes wrote:

> I just found this one on my TODO list:
> 
> The error message for "no data" in an exec sql insert select from statement
> has to be 100.
> 
> It seems I cannot get that kind of information from libpq other than
> checking for the result being 0 tuples. But is this correct? Or are there
> possibilities to get 0 tuples? That is I get PQcmdTuples(results) = 0 with
> the return code being PGRES_COMMAND_OK.

Shouldn't you check for PGRES_TUPLES_OK ? I always check for this if I 
want to know if a data select statement has succeeded. And this also 
still allows PQntuples() == 0

Maarten

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