libpq API for PQcmdTuples()

Mihai RUSU wrote:
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Hi

I was working recently on a mid-layer in my current projects for
abstraction of SQL backends (curently for mysql and pgsql only) and found
out that the libpq synonime of mysql_affected_rows is PQcmdTuples. However
I really dont see why does it return char * ?? Is there any practical
reason for this ?

Curently I do (unsigned int)atoi(PQcmdTuples()) but I really dont feel
very confortable with strings which might change their format at any time,
not to mention the overhead to convert from str to int each time (and I
dont expect to use this atoi rare heh).

I think the reason it is a string is mostly historical. You should be
find just converting it to an int.

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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

I think the reason it is a string is mostly historical. You should be
find just converting it to an int.

Ok thanks! However, its pretty dumb because probably libpq internally does
the int -> str conversion and then I do the reverse... A new libpq
function returning the numerical value would be nice :)

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