Re: Bug in documentation: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/spi-examples.html - Mailing list pgsql-docs

"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 4:53 PM Curt Kolovson <ckolovson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The actual results (shown below) are different than shown on this doc
>> page.

> SPI_exec sees "INSERT 0 2" as the command tag from the SQL command you
> passed and so 2 is the output of the execq function call.
> No INFO messages appear because you did not include a returning clause.
> The 1 you passed to the call is immaterial if the query you supply doesn't
> produce a result set.

I think his point is that this example does not behave as the
documentation claims.  Which it does not, according to my
tests here.  I find this a bit disturbing --- did we intentionally
change the behavior of SPI_exec somewhere along the line?

            regards, tom lane