Re: PSQL command line print speed

On 05/17/2017 09:03 AM, Adrian Myers wrote:
> Is there a way to speed up the actual line-by-line display of the psql
> console in version 8.4?
>
> Queries which perform in a few milliseconds through a driver (psycopg2
> in this case) can take several seconds or minutes to complete in the
> console, seemingly just due to it printing lines at a very leisurely
> pace (in other words, this is not the delay caused by the query itself,
> often it starts printing almost instantly but spends a very long time
> just writing output). While overall application performance is
> unaffected, simple admin tasks and poking around the data take longer
> than I would like as a result. Is there any way to improve just the
> display/write performance in the console?

Is this a psql client local to the server machine or across a network?

>
> Thanks for any insight,
> Adrian

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com