Re: [PATCH] Provide rowcount for utility SELECTs

Tom Lane írta:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>   
>> On mĂĽn, 2009-12-28 at 11:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> And, by the same token, the scope for possibly breaking clients is nearly
>>> unlimited ...
>>>       
>
>   
>> Why is that?  Are there programs out there that expect PQcmdTuples() to
>> return something that is *not* the tuple count for these commands and
>> will violently misbehave otherwise?
>>     
>
> It's more the possibility of doing strcmp(tag, "SELECT") on the command
>   

Actually it's strncmp(tag, "SELECT ", 7), so when you mix old server
with new clients or new server with old client, it will just work as
before, i.e.
return "".

> tag that worries me.  Describing the API change here as being limited
> to PQcmdTuples misses the point rather completely: this is a protocol
> change, and could break both clients and non-libpq driver libraries.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>   


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