Re: How to prevent jdbc from sending any results back to the client ?

The fetch size only comes into play if your are in a transaction. You have to disable auto commit and set the fetch size before executing your query. Otherwise the entire query result will be read and buffered in memory.

An alternative is to run the command as an EXPLAIN ANALYZE[1]. The server will then execute the entire operation but instead of sending back the data it will send the query plan and runtime statistics.

[1]: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-explain.html

Regards,
Sehrope Sarkuni
Founder & CEO | JackDB, Inc. | http://www.jackdb.com/

> On Apr 19, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Dimitris Karampinas <dkarampin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an academic project and I need to benchmark PostgreSQL.
> I'm intersted only about the performance of the DBMS itself and I'm trying to keep things simple in my measurements.
> Preferably I'd like to ignore the query results at the client side but jdbc seems to return results even if I don't call next() on the Resultset (is that true ?).
> As a consequence, I can't measure acurately a per query execution time since the time I get depends also on the time spent to send the answer (or part of it) to the client.
> setFetchSize(1) doesn't seem to help much.
> Can I hack the driver and diminish the overhead explained above ?
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitris