Re: Slowness of extended protocol

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Slowness of extended protocol
Date: 2016-08-23 16:54:38
Message-ID: 20160823165438.7q7r7cdznsntgbo3@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2016-08-23 11:42:53 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think this could possibly be done, but it seems a lot better to me
> to just bite the bullet and add a new protocol message. That was
> proposed by Tom Lane on July 31st and I think it's still by far the
> best and easiest idea proposed, except I think we could introduce it
> without waiting for a bigger rework of the protocol if we design the
> libpq APIs carefully. Most of the rest of this thread seems to have
> devolved into an argument about whether this is really necessary,
> which IMHO is a pretty silly argument, instead of focusing on how it
> might be done, which I think would be a much more productive
> conversation.

I agree about the odd course of the further discussion, especially the
tone was rather odd. But I do think it's valuable to think about a path
that fixes the issue without requiring version-dependant adaptions in
all client drivers.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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