Ken Guest <kguest@stockbyte.com> writes:
> 1. Is the semicolon at the end of SQL superflous when sent to Postgres?
> Should it make much of a difference if I removed it?
Yes; no.
> 2. A lot of SQL issued have white space characters (newlines, tabs and
> spaces) present - does this have any [major] impact on how quick
> postgres gets to execute the SQL and return results?
No. I doubt you could measure the impact at all ... unless you are
talking many kilobytes of whitespace, in which case the data
transmission overhead might be noticeable.
regards, tom lane