Re: can stored procedures with computational sql queries improve API performance? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rob Sargent
Subject Re: can stored procedures with computational sql queries improve API performance?
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Msg-id B33971DD-9219-4C76-8DA1-911F416F10EE@gmail.com
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In response to Re: can stored procedures with computational sql queries improve API performance?  (Krishnakant Mane <kkproghub@gmail.com>)
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> On Jul 9, 2024, at 7:21 PM, Krishnakant Mane <kkproghub@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
>> On 7/10/24 06:44, Guyren Howe wrote:
>>> On Jul 9, 2024, at 17:58, Krishnakant Mane <kkproghub@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I have a straight forward question, but I am just trying to analyze the specifics.
>>>
>>> So I have a set of queries depending on each other in a sequence to compute some results for generating financial
report.
>>>
>>> It involves summing up some amounts from tuns or of rows and also on certain conditions it categorizes the amounts
intotypes (aka Debit Balance, Credit balance etc). 
>>>
>>> There are at least 6 queries in this sequence and apart from 4 input parameters. these queries never change.
>>>
>>> So will I get any performance benefit by having them in a stored procedure rather than sending the queries from my
Pythonbased API? 
>> Almost certainly.
>>
>> Doing it all in a stored procedure or likely even better a single query will remove all of the latency involved in
goingback and forth between your app and the database. 
>>
>> Insofar as the queries you are running separately access similar data, a single query will be able to do that work
once.
>>
>> There are other potential benefits (a smaller number of queries reduces planning time, for example).
>
>
> Basically there are if else conditions and it's not just the queries but the conditional sequence in which they
execute.
>
> So one single query won't do the job.
>
Are you processing the results of each of the queries in your python code before sending the next query?  If so, i
don'tthink you will see much improvement per query  


> But Thank you for confirming my understanding.
>
> I believe that the fact that stored procedures are compiled also makes them perform faster, is that correct?
>
If the SP is fired in a loop or very frequently ( not monthly), yes
> Regards.
>
>
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