Re: PATCH: Batch/pipelining support for libpq

From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Manuel Kniep <m(dot)kniep(at)web(dot)de>, "fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp" <fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Batch/pipelining support for libpq
Date: 2016-10-04 08:39:26
Message-ID: 1e186415-1f0c-6e9b-16d4-a9fe9c605de8@archidevsys.co.nz
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On 04/10/16 20:15, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org> wrote:
>> Wouldn't pgbench benefit from it?
>> It was mentioned some time ago [1], in relationship to the
>> \into construct, how client-server latency was important enough to
>> justify the use of a "\;" separator between statements, to send them
>> as a group.
>>
>> But with the libpq batch API, maybe this could be modernized
>> with meta-commands like this:
>> \startbatch
>> ...
>> \endbatch
> Or just \batch [on|off], which sounds like a damn good idea to me for
> some users willing to test some workloads before integrating it in an
> application.

+1

'\batch' is a bit easier, to find, & to remember than '\startbatch'

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