Re: PSQL command line print speed

Hi

2017-05-17 18:03 GMT+02:00 Adrian Myers <hadrianmyers(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> 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?
>

try to play with used format

probably unalign format will be faster

postgres=# \pset format unaligned
Output format is unaligned.

Regards

Pavel

>
> Thanks for any insight,
> Adrian
>