David G. Johnston wrote: > I would keep the \gp meta-command to force extended mode regardless > of whether the query itself requires it.
+1 > A pset variable to control the default seems reasonable as well. > The implication would be that if you set that pset variable there is > no way to have individual commands use simple query mode directly. +1 except that it would be a \set variable for consistency with the other execution-controlling variables. \pset variables control only the display. BTW if we wanted to auto-detect that a query requires binding or the extended query protocol, we need to keep in mind that for instance "PREPARE stmt AS $1" must pass without binding, with both the simple and the extended query protocol. Best regards, -- Daniel Vérité https://postgresql.verite.pro/ Twitter: @DanielVerite
