Re: ECPG FETCH readahead

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: ECPG FETCH readahead
Date: 2010-06-23 20:42:37
Message-ID: 201006232042.o5NKgb503695@momjian.us
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Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we improved ECPG quite a lot in 9.0 because we worked and
> still working with an Informix to PostgreSQL migration project.
>
> We came across a pretty big performance problem that can be seen in
> every "naive" application that uses only FETCH 1, FETCH RELATIVE
> or FETCH ABSOLUTE. These are almost the only FETCH variations
> usable in Informix, i.e. it doesn't have the grammar for fetching N rows
> at once. Instead, the Client SDK libraries do caching themselves
> behind the scenes to reduce network turnaround time.

I assume our ecpg version supports >1 fetch values, even in Informix
mode. Does it make sense to add lots of code to our ecpg then?

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