Calculate number of rows affected by batch query in PostgreSQL

Question

First of all, yes I\'ve read documentation for DO statement :) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-do.html

So my question:

I need to execute some d

Answer 1

My solution is quite simple. In Oracle I need to use variables to calculate the sum of updated rows because command.ExecuteNonQuery() returns only the count of rows affected by the last UPDATE in the batch.

However, npgsql returns the sum of all rows updated by all UPDATE queries. So I only need to call command.ExecuteNonQuery() and get the result without any variables. Much easier than with Oracle.