Re: Performance problems with prepared statements

On 10/11/07, Theo Kramer <theo(at)flame(dot)co(dot)za> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:12 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > Theo Kramer wrote:
> > >
> > > So I suspect that there is something more fundamental here...
> >
> > OK, so there must be something different between the two scenarios. It
> > can only be one of:
> > 1. Query
> > 2. DB Environment (user, locale, settings)
> > 3. Network environment (server/client/network activity etc)
>
> I suspect that it could also be in the way the libpq PQprepare(), and
> PQexecPrepared() are handled... as opposed to the way PREPARE and
> EXECUTE are handled.

PQexecPrepared is generally the fastest way to run queries from a C
app as long as you get the right plan. Some suggestions

* you can explain/explain analyze executing prepared statements from
psql shell...try that and see if you can reproduce results
* at worst case you can drop to execParams which is faster (and
better) than PQexec, at least
* if problem is plan related, you can always disable certain plan
types (seqscan), prepare, and re-enable those plan types
* do as Jonah suggested, first step is to try and reproduce problem from psql

merlin