Re: [PERFORM] psql -A (unaligned format) eats too much

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:48:43AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net> writes:
> > Ühel kenal päeval, E, 2006-06-05 kell 14:10, kirjutas Tom Lane:
> >> Note of course that such a thing would push the incomplete-result
> >> problem further upstream.   For instance in (hypothetical --cursor
> >> switch)
> >>    psql --cursor -c "select ..." | myprogram
> >> there would be no very good way for myprogram to find out that it'd
> >> been sent an incomplete result due to error partway through the SELECT.
> 
> > would it not learn about it at the point of error ?
> 
> No, it would merely see EOF after some number of result rows.  (I'm
> assuming you're also using -A -t so that the output is unadorned.)

So if an error occurs partway through reading a cursor, no error message
is generated? That certainly sounds like a bug to me...
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