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Re:One word in PostgreSQL unlocked a 9x performance improvement by magicalhippo on Sunday June 14, 2020 @04:51PM (#23521255)
> You know ahead of time how many items you're trying to insert, it would be completely pointless to return that.

I often use "insert into mytable(...) select ... from ... where ...", and I know I only want one row inserted.

In such cases checking that exactly one row was inserted is a very nice safeguard against buggy code/query, or in the freak case someone messed with the DB.

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