Re: Slowness of extended protocol

From: Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Slowness of extended protocol
Date: 2016-07-31 15:47:25
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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

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