PHP pg_affected_rows function

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pg_affected_rows

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

pg_affected_rows() returns the number of tuples
(instances/records/rows) affected by INSERT,
UPDATE, and DELETE
queries.

Note:
This function used to be called pg_cmdtuples().

PostgreSQL query result resource, returned by pg_query(),
pg_query_params() or pg_execute()
(among others).

The number of rows affected by the query. If no tuple is
affected, it will return 0.

Example 1. pg_affected_rows() example

$result = pg_query($conn, "INSERT INTO authors VALUES ('Orwell', 2002, 'Animal Farm')");
 
$cmdtuples = pg_affected_rows($result);
 
echo $cmdtuples . " tuples are affected.\n";

The above example will output: