Re: psql: Add command to use extended query protocol

Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>

From: "Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Pgsql-Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-11-14T13:47:35Z
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  1. psql: Add command to use extended query protocol

	Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> > I assume that we may sometimes want to use the
> > extended protocol on all queries of a script, like
> > pgbench does with --protocol=extended.
> 
> But is there an actual use case for this in psql?  In pgbench, there are 
> scenarios where you want to test aspects of prepared statements, plan 
> caching, and so on.  Is there something like that for psql?

If we set aside "exercising the protocol" as not an interesting use case
for psql, then no, I can't think of any benefit.


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