Re: [PATCH] Provide rowcount for utility SELECTs

Robert Haas írta:
> 2010/1/12 Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>:
>
>> Tom Lane írta:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> Can you give me an example that would return
>> plain "SELECT" after my new patch? I added
>> one more change to the patch, is it enough to return
>> "SELECT N" in every case now?
>>
>
> I just tested this, so I can say definitely: no.  I hacked psql with
> the attached patch, and if you just do a plain old SELECT * FROM
> table, you get back only SELECT, not SELECT N.
>
> ...Robert
>

Thanks for testing it, with the attached patch your test case also
returns SELECT N.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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