Re: Slowness of extended protocol

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Sure, but I don't want the application to have to know about that, and
>> I don't really think the driver should need to know about that either.
>> Your point, as I understand it, is that sufficiently good query
>> caching in the driver can ameliorate the problem, and I agree with
>> that.
>
> I don't, actually.  If a particular application has a query mix that gets
> a good win from caching query plans, it should already be using prepared
> statements.  The fact that that's not a particularly popular thing to do
> isn't simply because people are lazy, it's because they've found out that
> it isn't worth the trouble for them.  Putting query caching logic into
> drivers isn't going to improve performance for such cases, and it could
> very possibly make things worse.  The driver is the place with the
> absolute least leverage for implementing caching; it has no visibility
> into either the application or the server.

I didn't mean to imply, in any way, that it is an ideal solution -
just that people use it successfully.

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