Re: performance libpq vs JDBC

If you have all records before issuing Insert, you can do it like: insert into
xxx values (a,b,c), (d,e,f), ......;
an example: http://kaiv.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/faster-insert-for-multiple-rows

Best Regards,
Divakar

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From: Werner Scholtes <Werner(dot)Scholtes(at)heuboe(dot)de>
To: Divakar Singh <dpsmails(at)yahoo(dot)com>; "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org"
<pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thu, December 16, 2010 2:51:53 PM
Subject: RE: [PERFORM] performance libpq vs JDBC

Unfortunately I cannot use COPY funtion, since I need the performance of JDBC
for update and delete statements in C++ libpq-program as well.

I wonder how JDBC PreparedStatement.addBatch() and
PreparedStatement.executeBatch() work. They need to have a more efficient
protocol to send bulks of parameter sets for one prepared statement as batch in
one network transmission to the server. As far as I could see PQexecPrepared
does not allow to send more than one parameter set (parameters for one row) in
one call. So libpq sends 1000 times one single row to the server where JDBC
sends 1 time 1000 rows, which is much more efficient.

I assume that the wire protocol of PostgreSQL allows to transmit multiple rows
at once, but libpq doesn't have an interface to access it. Is that right?

Von:Divakar Singh [mailto:dpsmails(at)yahoo(dot)com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2010 09:11
An: Werner Scholtes; pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Betreff: Re: [PERFORM] performance libpq vs JDBC

Can you trying writing libpq program using COPY functions?
I hope it will be better than prepared statements.

Best Regards,
Divakar

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From:Werner Scholtes <Werner(dot)Scholtes(at)heuboe(dot)de>
To: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 8:21:55 PM
Subject: [PERFORM] performance libpq vs JDBC

I wrote a test program in C++ using libpq. It works as follows (pseudo code):

for( int loop = 0; loop < 1000; ++loop ) {
PQexec("BEGIN");
const char* sql = "INSERT INTO pg_perf_test (id, text) VALUES($1,$2)";
PQprepare(m_conn,"stmtid",sql,0,NULL);
for ( int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i )
// Set values etc.
PQexecPrepared(m_conn,…);
}
PQexec("DEALLOCATE stmtid");
PQexec("COMMIT");
}

I measured the duration of every loop of the outer for-loop resulting in an
average of 450 ms (per 1000 data sets insert)

After that, I wrote a test program in Java using JDBC. It works as follows:

for( intloops = 0; loops < 1000; ++i) {
String sql = "INSERT INTO pq_perf_test (id,text) VALUES (?,?)";
PreparedStatement stmt = con.prepareStatement(sql);
for(inti = 0; i < 1000; ++i ) {
// Set values etc.
stmt.addBatch();
}
stmt.executeBatch();
con.commit();
stmt.close();
}

I measured the duration of every loop of the outer for-loop resulting in an
average of 100 ms (per 1000 data sets insert)

This means that accessing PostgreSQL by JDBC is about 4-5 times faster than
using libpq.

Comparable results have been measured with analog update and delete statements.

I need to enhance the performance of my C++ code. Is there any possibility in
libpq to reach the performance of JDBC for INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements
(I have no chance to use COPY statements)? I didn't find anything comparable to
PreparedStatement.executeBatch() in libpq.

Best regards,
Werner Scholtes