From 3aff9ba29a7065c754f419a6ded2ad68284c32e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Erlend E. Aasland" <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:02:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [3.11] gh-100021: Document that sqlite3's executemany()
 discards resulting rows (#103939)

---
 Doc/library/sqlite3.rst | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index 165bac4c0f707b..4dbbfe21ff66c4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -1363,12 +1363,12 @@ Cursor objects
 
       For every item in *parameters*,
       repeatedly execute the :ref:`parameterized <sqlite3-placeholders>`
-      SQL statement *sql*.
+      :abbr:`DML (Data Manipulation Language)` SQL statement *sql*.
 
       Uses the same implicit transaction handling as :meth:`~Cursor.execute`.
 
       :param str sql:
-         A single SQL :abbr:`DML (Data Manipulation Language)` statement.
+         A single SQL DML statement.
 
       :param parameters:
          An :term:`!iterable` of parameters to bind with
@@ -1391,6 +1391,13 @@ Cursor objects
          # cur is an sqlite3.Cursor object
          cur.executemany("INSERT INTO data VALUES(?)", rows)
 
+      .. note::
+
+         Any resulting rows are discarded,
+         including DML statements with `RETURNING clauses`_.
+
+      .. _RETURNING clauses: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_returning.html
+
    .. method:: executescript(sql_script, /)
 
       Execute the SQL statements in *sql_script*.