Is there any way to count how many hits I got in a cursor in PL/pgsql? I have a function that will "window" through the result of a (large) query based on two parameters, but I also want to return the number of hits to the client. Right now I'm looping through the entire cursor and incrementing a local variable, which I later return (along with the first <n> records in the resultset) to the client. But this seems horribly inefficient... I'd just like to ask "how many rows are in this cursor", is there a way to do that without looping through them all?
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