Marti Raudsepp <ma...@juffo.org> writes: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Ashutosh Bapat > <ashutosh.ba...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> That seems a good idea. We will get rid of FETCH_COUNT then, wouldn't we?
> No, I don't think we want to do that. FETCH_COUNT values greater than > 1 are still useful to get reasonably tabulated output without hogging > too much memory. 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. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers