Re: performance for high-volume log insertion

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>> As a note for non-JDBC users, the JDBC driver's batch interface allows
>>> executing multiple statements in a single network roundtrip.  This is
>>> something you can't get in libpq, so beware of this for comparison's
>>> sake..
>>
>> Really?  I thought that executing statements like so:
>>
>> select * from a;insert ...;delete;
>>
>> in psql / libpq would execute them all in one trip.
>
> Right, but those aren't prepared.  I suppose it's possible to issue a
> prepare and then issue a batch of comma separated "execute" statements, but
> that's not exactly a natural interface.

Oh right,. Sorry, didn't realize you were talking about prepared statements.