Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes
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Msg-id 199804291604.MAA18436@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> That was something I asked about a few days ago, and didn't get any
> responses suggesting that anyone thought it was likely to happen.
>
> We would need wholesale changes everywhere in the protocol to support
> concurrent queries: answers and errors coming back would have to be
> tagged to indicate which query they apply to.  The lack of a tag in
> the cancel message isn't the controlling factor.
>
> In the current system architecture, much the easiest way to execute
> concurrent queries is to open up more than one connection.  There's
> nothing that says a frontend process can't fire up multiple backend
> processes.  I think this is probably sufficient, because I don't
> foresee such a thing becoming really popular anyway.

If we can remove the exec() in 6.4, that will make backend startup even
quicker.


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