Re: [PATCHES] updated patch for selecting large results sets

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Wait a minute.  What I thought we had agreed to was a patch to make
> >>> commands sent with \g use a cursor.
>
> > I am confused.  I assume \g and ; should be affected, like Peter says.
> > Tom, what *every* command are you talking about?  You mean \d?
>
> Like I said, I thought we were intending to modify \g's behavior only;
> that was certainly the implication of the discussion of "\gc".

OK, got it.  I just don't see the value to doing \g and not ;. I think
the \gc case was a hack when he didn't have \set.  Now that we have
\set, we should be consistent.

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