--On 20. Februar 2014 09:51:47 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Yeah. The other reason that you can't just transparently change the
> behavior is error handling: people are used to seeing either all or
> none of the output of a query. In single-row mode that guarantee
> fails, since some rows might get output before the server detects
> an error.
That's true. I'd never envisioned to this transparently either, exactly of
this reason. However, i find to have single row mode somewhere has some
attractiveness, be it only to have some code around that shows how to do it
right. But i fear we might complicate things in psql beyond what we really
want.
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Thanks
Bernd