Re: Optimization for updating foreign tables in Postgres FDW

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Etsuro Fujita <fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rushabh Lathia <rushabh(dot)lathia(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Shigeru Hanada <shigeru(dot)hanada(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Optimization for updating foreign tables in Postgres FDW
Date: 2016-04-13 12:46:22
Message-ID: CA+Tgmobvg=KV6nm-doG+KT-2d+T9Jok5gxrRM4jm9VJfCFw9+A@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Etsuro Fujita
<fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>> How about we encapsulate the while (PQisBusy(...)) loop into a new
>> function pgfdw_get_result(), which can be called after first calling
>> PQsendQueryParams()? So then this code will say dmstate->result =
>> pgfdw_get_result(dmstate->conn). And we can do something similar for
>> the other call to PQexecParams() in create_cursor(). Then let's also
>> add something like pgfdw_exec_query() which calls PQsendQuery() and
>> then pgfdw_get_result, and use that to replace all of the existing
>> calls to PQexec().
>>
>> Then all the SQL postgres_fdw executes would be interruptible, not
>> just the new stuff.
>
> Seems like a good idea. Will do.

When will you do this? We are on a bit of a time budget here.

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Robert Haas
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