Re: FDW for PostgreSQL

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> wrote:

> At execute_query(), it stores the retrieved rows onto tuplestore of
> festate->tuples at once. Doesn't it make problems when remote-
> table has very big number of rows?
>

No. postgres_fdw uses single-row processing mode of libpq when
retrieving query results in execute_query, so memory usage will
be stable at a certain level.

> IIRC, the previous code used cursor feature to fetch a set of rows
> to avoid over-consumption of local memory. Do we have some
> restriction if we fetch a certain number of rows with FETCH?
> It seems to me, we can fetch 1000 rows for example, and tentatively
> store them onto the tuplestore within one PG_TRY() block (so, no
> need to worry about PQclear() timing), then we can fetch remote
> rows again when IterateForeignScan reached end of tuplestore.
>

As you say, postgres_fdw had used cursor to avoid possible memory
exhaust on large result set. I switched to single-row processing mode
(it could be said "protocol-level cursor"), which was added in 9.2,
because it accomplish same task with less SQL calls than cursor.

Regards,
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Shigeru HANADA