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# pg_num_rows

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

pg_num_rows -- Returns the number of rows in a result

## Description

int pg_num_rows ( resource result )

pg_num_rows() will return the number of rows in a PostgreSQL result resource.

> Note: This function used to be called pg_numrows().

## Parameters

result

  PostgreSQL query result resource, returned by pg_query(), pg_query_params() or pg_execute() (among others).

## Return Values

The number of rows in the result. On error, -1 is returned.

## Examples

Example 1. pg_num_rows() example

`<?php $result = pg_query($conn, "SELECT 1"); $rows = pg_num_rows($result); echo $rows . " row(s) returned.\n"; ?>`

The above example will output:

    1 row(s) returned.

## See Also

pg_num_fields()
pg_affected_rows()

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