Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2010-12-07, Kobi Biton <k...@comns.co.il> wrote:
hi i am a newbie to sql statments , I am running postgres 8.1 with
application called opennms version 1.8.5 due to an application bug
queries that I execute aginst the DB which returns raw-count=0 are being
ignored and will not process a certain trigger I need to process.
I think you want this:
ORIGINAL QUERY
union
select DUMMY ROW DATA
where
not exists ( ORIGINAL QUERY )
you need to return something to get a rowcount of 1 this is what the
dummy row data provides. the "where not exists" part blocks the dummy
row data when the main query returns something.
Simple enough, but I suspect it runs the same query twice, so I hope
it's not to expensive. I wonder what the app is/was doing with the
vacuous single row or will do with the dummy data row? Seems the
app/trigger simply needs to know the execution of the query was
successful irrespective of the actual row count - or is that the bug
with "1.8.5"?
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