Get count of records affected by INSERT or UPDATE in PostgreSQL

Question

My database driver for PostgreSQL 8/9 does not return a count of records affected when executing INSERT or UPDATE.

PostgreSQL offers the n

Answer 1

I agree w/ Milen, your driver should do this for you. What driver are you using and for what language? But if you are using plpgsql, you can use GET DIAGNOSTICS my_var = ROW_COUNT;

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-statements.html