Question

I want to see how many rows my delete query effects so I know its correct.

Is this possible using pgadmin?

Answer 1

Start a transaction, delete and then rollback;

In psql :

test1=> begin;
BEGIN
test1=> delete from test1 where test1_id = 1;
DELETE 2
test1=> rollback;
ROLLBACK

In pgAdmin (in the “History” tab on the “Output pane”):

-- Executing query:
begin;
Query returned successfully with no result in 16 ms.

-- Executing query:
delete from test1 where test1_id = 1;
Query returned successfully: 2 rows affected, 16 ms execution time.

-- Executing query:
rollback;
Query returned successfully with no result in 16 ms.