Re: [PATCH] Provide rowcount for utility SELECTs

Tom Lane írta:
> Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
>   
>> Tom Lane írta:
>>     
>>> 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 "".
>>     
>
> Are you deliberately ignoring the point?

No, I just thought you were commenting on my patch's details...

>   We have no way to know whether
> there is any client-side code that's doing a simple check for SELECT
> command tag, but it's certainly possible.  The fact that it wouldn't be
> hard to fix does not mean that it wouldn't be broken.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>   


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