Re: default result formats setting

On 2020-11-05 22:03, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Independently of that, how would you implement "says otherwise" here,
>> ie do a single-query override of the session's prevailing setting?
>> Maybe the right thing for that is to define -1 all the way down to the
>> protocol level as meaning "use the session's per-type default", and
>> then if you don't want that you can pass 0 or 1.  An advantage of that
>> is that you couldn't accidentally break an application that wasn't
>> ready for this feature, because it would not be the default to use it.
> Yeah, that sounds a lot better.  I'll look into that.

Here is a new patch updated to work that way.  Feels better now.

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Peter Eisentraut
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