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. Best regards, -- Daniel Vérité https://postgresql.verite.pro/ Twitter: @DanielVerite