Re: performance for high-volume log insertion

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> Erm..  Prepared queries is about using PQexecPrepared(), not about
> sending a text string as an SQL EXECUTE().  PQexecPrepared takes an
> array of arguments.  That gets translated into a Bind command in the
> protocol with a defined number of parameters and a length for each
> parameter being passed.  That removes any need for scanning/parsing the
> string sent to the backend.  That's the savings I'm referring to.

I'd suggest this be mentioned in the sql-prepare documentation, then,
because that documentation only discusses using prepared statements to
eliminate redundant planning costs. (I'm sure it's mentioned in the
API docs and elsewhere, but if it's a major intended use of PREPARE,
the PREPARE documentation should make note of it.)

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Glenn Maynard