Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>:
> I'm well aware of how the extended protocol works, but it seems odd for a
> 30% increase in processing time to be the result exclusively of processing
> 5 messages instead of just 1 - it doesn't seem like that big a deal
> (although I may be mistaken). I was imagining that there's something more
> fundamental in how the protocol or PostgreSQL state is managed internally,
> that would be responsible for the slowdown.
>
Hi, have you tried to use a profiler to identify the _cause_ of the
difference in performance?
Here's relevant read:
https://shipilev.net/blog/2015/voltmeter/#_english_version
Vladimir