From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)trust(dot)ee> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Speed or lack thereof |
Date: | 1999-01-18 23:15:06 |
Message-ID: | 36A3C07A.67C6C91C@trust.ee |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Also, while the fe/be protocol is certainly a bit crufty, I'm not
> convinced that a well-designed frontend is going to suffer any real
> performance problem from parsing the protocol. The trick again is to
> read into a buffer and parse from the buffer.
That's also what I did, but still better protocol would have helped
> > And of course we need some sort of CLI that can do prepared statements
> > and that can use binary fields (not only the file interface).
>
> > Currently we have some of it, bu only in SPI.
>
> SPI? I missed something ... what's that?
I think it stands for Server Programming Interface (?). Vadim (?) added
it as the interface for C and other programming language functions
to execute queries inside the backend. AFAIK, it follows the standard
prepare-bind-execute-fetch model for its queries.
It is quite well documented in the standard PG docs.
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Hannu Krosing
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