Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Is there a use case for a global setting?
I assume that we may sometimes want to use the extended protocol on all queries of a script, like pgbench does with --protocol=extended. Outside of psql, it's too complicated to parse a SQL script to replace the end-of-query semicolons with \gp, whereas a psql setting solves this effortlessly. Best regards, -- Daniel Vérité https://postgresql.verite.pro/ Twitter: @DanielVerite