Re: InitPostgres and flatfiles question

Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>>> What value is allowing multiple queies via PQexec()
>> 
>> The only argument I can think of is that it allows applications to be
>> sloppy about parsing a SQL script into individual commands before they
>> send it.  (I think initdb may be guilty of exactly that BTW...)  At the
>> same time you could argue that such sloppiness is inherently a Bad Idea.

> Doesn't it also avoid some network(?) overhead when you have
> a large number of small inserts or updates?

> I seem to recall a previous company where we had a major performance
> by concatenating a bunch of updates with ";"s in between and sending
> them to postgresql as a single command.

These days you'd probably be better off using a multi-row VALUES() list
if relevant.  Also, if you really want to send multiple statements like
that, there's a cleaner way to do it: use the extended query protocol
and don't Sync or wait for a reply until you've sent them all.
        regards, tom lane