Re: Proposal: PqSendBuffer removal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aleksei Ivanov
Subject Re: Proposal: PqSendBuffer removal
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Msg-id CAN0E21Nt7SFqrbO55Jd_PGQ2AakQF_h8EbUmVP-5SfzrMrG9TA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Proposal: PqSendBuffer removal  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thank you for your reply!

Yes, you are right there will be a separate call to send the data, but is copying data each time more costly operation than just one syscall?

Besides, if we already have a ready message packet to be sent why should we wait?

Waiting for your reply, 
Best regards!



On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 13:10 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Aleksei Ivanov <iv.alekseii@gmail.com> writes:
> I am really curious what was the original intention of using the
> PqSendBuffer and is it possible to remove it now.

> Currently all messages are copied from StringInfo to this buffer and sent,
> which from my point of view is redundant operation.

That would mean doing a separate send() kernel call for every few bytes,
no?  I think the point of that buffer is to be sure we accumulate a
reasonable number of bytes to pass to the kernel for each send().

                        regards, tom lane

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