A.M. wrote: >Anyway, what does "The driver beats libpq in speed by about 62%" mean?
It means that if I open up a connection, my lib only takes half the time libpq uses to open up the connection, and it also means that when I run the following query 10 times in a row: SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_type as a,pg_catalog.pg_type as b LIMIT 1000 and the resultset is subsequently splitted, parsed and copied *per* row and column into memory, and then discarded; that using my driver it takes 483 units of time, and using the libpq driver it uses 762 units of time. I.e. speed comparison is 762/483 = 1.63 -> 63% faster. The test environment is: unloaded Linux 2.6.26 client using libpq5 8.3.3, and an unloaded Linux 2.6.26 server running PostgreSQL 8.3.3, 100Mb/s ethernet in between. The test is I/O bound, and therefore tests the client-lib efficiency. -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. "Even if man could understand women, he still wouldn't believe it." -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers