Re: PATCH: Batch/pipelining support for libpq

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: 2016-05-23 15:50:02
Message-ID: 20160523155002.debxru4u57tqztyy@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2016-05-23 17:19:09 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Hi all
> Following on from the foreign table batch inserts thread[1], here's a patch
> to add support for pipelining queries into asynchronous batches in libpq.

Yay!

> I'm measuring 300x (not %) performance improvements doing batches on
> servers over the Internet, so this seems pretty worthwhile. It turned out
> to be way less invasive than I expected too.

yay^2.

> (I intentionally didn't add any way for clients to annotate each work-item
> in a batch with their own private data. I think that'd be really useful and
> would make implementing clients easier, but should be a separate patch).
>
> This should be very useful for optimising FDWs, Postgres-XC, etc.

And optimizing normal clients.

Not easy, but I'd be very curious how much psql's performance improves
when replaying a .sql style dump, and replaying from a !tty fd, after
hacking it up to use the batch API.

- Andres

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