Re: Slowness of extended protocol

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>
Cc: Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Slowness of extended protocol
Date: 2016-08-05 13:54:19
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZJXi7b0Nu0K5Q95anjqXQQUaPJkAxzezDAkpnJS4ciCA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org> wrote:
>> Shay, why don't you use a profiler? Seriously.
>> I'm afraid "iterate the per-message loop in PostgresMain five times not
>> once" /"just discussing what may or may not be a problem..." is just
>> hand-waving.
>>
>> Come on, it is not that hard.
>
> I really don't get what's problematic with posting a message on a mailing
> list about a potential performance issue, to try to get people's reactions,
> without diving into profiling right away. I'm not a PostgreSQL developer,
> have other urgent things to do and don't even spend most of my programming
> time in C.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I find your questions
helpful and interesting and I hope you will keep asking them. I think
that they are a valuable contribution to the discussion on this list.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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