diff --git a/copy-to.js b/copy-to.js
index fab8b58..2a6bef2 100644
--- a/copy-to.js
+++ b/copy-to.js
@@ -10,13 +10,11 @@ var CopyStreamQuery = function(text) {
   this.text = text
   this._listeners = null
   this._copyOutResponse = null
-  this.rowsRead = 0
 }
 
 util.inherits(CopyStreamQuery, Transform)
 
 CopyStreamQuery.prototype.submit = function(connection) {
-  console.log('submitting')
   connection.query(this.text)
   this.connection = connection
   this._listeners = connection.stream.listeners('data')
@@ -79,8 +77,8 @@ CopyStreamQuery.prototype._transform = function(chunk, enc, cb) {
       offset += 5
       var slice = chunk.slice(offset, offset + length)
       offset += length
-      this.rowsRead++
       this.push(slice)
+      this.emit('row')
     } else {
       break;
     }
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 34742bc..e545e4d 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ CopyStreamQuery.prototype._transform = function(chunk, enc, cb) {
   lenBuffer.writeUInt32BE(chunk.length + 4, 0)
   this.push(lenBuffer)
   this.push(chunk)
+  this.emit('row')
   cb()
 }
 
diff --git a/test/copy-from.js b/test/copy-from.js
index 9f0662e..e4398ee 100644
--- a/test/copy-from.js
+++ b/test/copy-from.js
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ var testRange = function(top) {
   var txt = 'COPY numbers FROM STDIN'
 
   var stream = fromClient.query(copy(txt))
+  var rowEmitCount = 0
+  stream.on('row', function() {
+    rowEmitCount++
+  })
   for(var i = 0; i < top; i++) {
     stream.write(Buffer('' + i + '\t' + i*10 + '\n'))
   }
@@ -32,6 +36,7 @@ var testRange = function(top) {
       console.log('found ', res.rows.length, 'rows')
       countDone()
       var firstRowDone = gonna('have correct result')
+      assert.equal(rowEmitCount, top, 'should have emitted "row" event ' + top + ' times')
       fromClient.query('SELECT (max(num)) AS num FROM numbers', function(err, res) {
         assert.ifError(err)
         assert.equal(res.rows[0].num, top-1)
diff --git a/test/copy-to.js b/test/copy-to.js
index 5c1bb4f..16b1c31 100644
--- a/test/copy-to.js
+++ b/test/copy-to.js
@@ -15,17 +15,22 @@ var testRange = function(top) {
   var fromClient = client()
   var copy = require('../').to
 
-  var txt = 'COPY (SELECT * from generate_series(0, ' + top + ')) TO STDOUT'
+  var txt = 'COPY (SELECT * from generate_series(0, ' + (top - 1) + ')) TO STDOUT'
 
   var stream = fromClient.query(copy(txt))
+  var rowEmitCount = 0
+  stream.on('row', function() {
+    rowEmitCount++
+  })
   var done = gonna('finish piping out', 1000, function() {
     fromClient.end()
   })
 
   stream.pipe(concat(function(buf) {
     var res = buf.toString('utf8')
-    var expected = _.range(0, top+1).join('\n') + '\n'
+    var expected = _.range(0, top).join('\n') + '\n'
     assert.equal(res, expected)
+    assert.equal(rowEmitCount, top, 'should have emitted "row" ' + top + ' times but got ' + rowEmitCount)
     done()
   }))
 }