On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:22 PM, David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com> wrote:
Naoya Anzai wrote
> Hi Dave, > > Thanks for your response. > >> Thanks for the patch! Curious how would you ever come across this ? > > This incident was reported by one of our customers. > So I don't know why their application executes EMPTY_QUERY frequently... > > Regards,
The most obvious reason would be as a keep-alive query...I have no idea whether that is a wise decision compared to "SELECT 1;" or something that actually causes the server to perform work (i.e., what does the server do when it see the empty-string as input?).