Re: Slow ext'd query via client native implementation vs. libpq & simple psql

Richard Michael <rmichael@edgeofthenet.org> writes:
> On PG 12.2, I am analyzing a performance problem when using a client
> (Elixir/postgrex) querying via the extended query protocol.  I am comparing
> with
> psql and a C program.  Logs for all three follow this short explanation.

Hmm, your auto-explain log entries show all three queries having
server-side execution times of a couple dozen msec.  It seems like
the excess time must be involved in transmitting the data to the
client.  So I guess I'd be looking at whether the client is really
slow at absorbing data for some reason.

IIRC, auto-explain's 'actual time' for the top-level query node does not
count the time to format data or transmit it to the client.  Still, we
have an upper bound of ~80 msec for that to happen with the libpq client,
and there's no obvious reason why it'd be different for the other client.

[ thinks for a bit... ]  You might double check that those two clients
are using the same client_encoding setting.  400ms doing encoding
conversion seems excessive, but there aren't that many other possibilities
for the I/O time to be different.

            regards, tom lane