Re: Selecting large tables gets killed

--On 20. Februar 2014 09:51:47 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> 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.

That's true. I'd never envisioned to this transparently either, exactly of 
this reason. However, i find to have single row mode somewhere has some 
attractiveness, be it only to have some code around that shows how to do it 
right. But i fear we might complicate things in psql beyond what we really 
want.

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Thanks
Bernd