Re: pgbench with libevent?

>> Interesting. In my understanding this also needs to make Latch
>> frontend-friendly?
>
> It could be refactored to support a different subset of event types --
> maybe just sockets, no latches and obviously no 'postmaster death'.
> But figuring out how to make latches work between threads might also
> be interesting for future projects...
>
> Maybe Fabien has completion-based I/O in mind (not just "readiness").

Pgbench is really a primitive client on top of libpq. ISTM that
completion-based I/O would require to enhance libpq asynchronous-ity, not
just expose its underlying fd to allow asynchronous implementations.
Currently pgbench only actuall "waits" for results from the server
and testing PQisBusy to check whether they are there.

> That's something that some of those libraries can do, IIUC. For
> example, when your thread wakes up, it tells you "your socket read is
> finished, the data is already in your target buffer".

Indeed, libevent has a higher level "buffer" oriented API.

> As opposed to "you can now call recv() without blocking", so you avoid
> another trip into the kernel. But that's also something we'll
> eventually want to figure out in the server.

--
Fabien.