Re: PostgresQL equivalent of NOCOUNT

Tom Lane wrote:

> Jochem van Dieten <jochemd@oli.tudelft.nl> writes:
>
>>Does PostgresQL have some way to make update, insert and delete queries
>>not return the number of affected rows? I know that in MS SQL one would
>>use NOCOUNT for that.
>>
>
> Uh ... why?  Seems like a useless anti-feature.  Certainly suppressing
> the count wouldn't save a noticeable number of cycles.


I am not in it for the cycles, just for the laziness ;)
Currently working with a ColdFusion frontend through ODBC, and
ColdFusion is unable to return 2 resultsets for one call to cfquery (the
ColdFusion query implementation). In MS SQL I would use the query below
to suppress one resultset and return the primary key of the recently
inserted record.

SET NOCOUNT ON
  INSERT INTO ()
  VALUES ()
  SELECT @@IDENTITY AS 'Identity'
SET NOCOUNT OFF

I was wondering if something like that is possible in PostgresQL. I know
I can wrap it in a transaction and do a second query or build a
procedure to do it, but this would be much easier (presuming I can use
curval('primary_key_seq') instead of @@identity).

Any suggestions?

Jochem