Re: Trigger performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: Trigger performance
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0401230834030.10349-100000@kix.fsv.cvut.cz
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In response to Re: Trigger performance  (pginfo <pginfo@t1.unisoftbg.com>)
List pgsql-performance
Hello

try prepared statements, PQexecPrepared
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/libpq-exec.html

Regards
Pavel Stehule

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, pginfo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks for the answer.
> It is very interest, because I readet many times that if I write the trigger
> in "C" it will work faster.
> In wich case will this trigger work faster if write it in "C"?
> In all my triggres I have "select ...." or "insert into mytable select ..."
> or "update mytable set ...where...".
> I need this info because I have a table with ~1.5 M rows and if I start to
> update 300 K from this rows it takes ~ 2h.
> If I remove the trigger for this table all the time is ~ 1 min.
>
> regards,
> ivan.
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > pginfo <pginfo@t1.unisoftbg.com> writes:
> > > I was supprised that the pgsql trigger take ~8 sec. to insert this rows
> > > and the "C" trigger take ~ 17 sec.
> >
> > The reason is that plpgsql caches the plan for the invoked SELECT,
> > whereas the way you coded the C function, it's re-planning that SELECT
> > on every call.
> >
> >                         regards, tom lane
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