Re: PATCH: Batch/pipelining support for libpq

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
> Wouldn't pgbench benefit from it?
> It was mentioned some time ago [1], in relationship to the
> \into construct, how client-server latency was important enough to
> justify the use of a "\;" separator between statements, to send them
> as a group.
>
> But with the libpq batch API, maybe this could be modernized
> with meta-commands like this:
>   \startbatch
>   ...
>   \endbatch

Or just \batch [on|off], which sounds like a damn good idea to me for
some users willing to test some workloads before integrating it in an
application.
-- 
Michael