At 10:01 PM 20/01/2004 +0100, you wrote:

>Release notes:
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>ROW_COUNT
>Returns an integer, the number of rows affected by the last DML statement.
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>
>Does it also count records affected via triggers (and cascading stuff)?

I don't think so. It's a context variable, whose context is confined to a
begin...end block in a PSQL module, so if you can't get at the block of
code that performs the DML, you can't access the row_count variable.

>The ReleaseNotes doesn't say - is there a standard that defines behaviour
>(if so, what does it say)?

Dunno about "standard" but Dmitry's notes are pretty specific about the
context.

/hb