Re: About binaryTransfer.

Hi Dave,

 > I pulled this into master.
 >
Thanks for merging my fix against master!

 > I'm not quite sure I want this back patched into
 > 9.3 though. This is new behaviour.
 >
I think the original change(*) was done for rare case.
But this change would cause a performance issue
in many cases like me.

So I want this fix into 9.3.
If we cannot do so, we should revert
the original change(*) at least.
(*)https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/commit/dbf76c2d662896c5703cf20d7362e1d061e1e43f

regards,
---------------
Tomonari Katsumata

 >
 >
 > Dave Cramer
 >
 > dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
 > http://www.credativ.ca
 >
 >
 > On 3 April 2014 04:37, Tomonari Katsumata
 > <katsumata.tomonari@po.ntts.co.jp>wrote:
 >
 >> Hi Dave,
 >>
 >> Did you check my pull-request?
 >> https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/128
 >>
 >> I don't want to use 9.2-1004 Driver, because it has some bugs
 >> about setQueryTimeout fixed by Heikki(*).
 >> (*) http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/52A0D28A.7040902@vmware.com
 >>
 >> So I need the PostgreSQL Driver 9.3-1101 have good performance
 >> like 9.2-1004 as soon as possible.
 >>
 >> Could you check it please?
 >> If I'm missing something, please tell me it!
 >>
 >> regards,
 >> ------------------------
 >> Tomonari Katsumata
 >>
 >>
 >> (2014/03/06 18:13), Tomonari Katsumata wrote:
 >>> Hi Dave,
 >>>
 >>> I've misunderstood the behavior of this problem.
 >>> The main problem is that the Describe message is send/receive
 >>> repeatedly, if user don't want to do so.
 >>>
 >>> The pull-request I've sent before(#124) didn't solve the problem.
 >>>
 >>> Now, I fixed it and sent a new pull-request.
 >>> https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/128
 >>>
 >>> Please check it!
 >>>
 >>> regards,
 >>> ----------------------
 >>> Tomonari Katsumata
 >>
 >>>
 >>> (2014/02/23 9:34), Tomonari Katsumata wrote:
 >>>> Hi Dave,
 >>>> I sent a Pull Request about this.
 >>>> https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/124
 >>>>
 >>>> regards,
 >>>> -------------------
 >>>> Tomonari Katsumata
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>> 2014-02-21 21:09 GMT+09:00 Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>:
 >>>>
 >>>>> Please submit a Pull Request
 >>>>>
 >>>>> Dave Cramer
 >>>>>
 >>>>> dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
 >>>>> http://www.credativ.ca
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Tomonari Katsumata <
 >>>>> katsumata.tomonari@po.ntts.co.jp> wrote:
 >>>>>
 >>>>>> Hi Mikko,
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>> Thank you for the explanation.
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>> I agree with your proposal adding prepareThreshold=-1.
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>> If there are no objection, I'll do for it!
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>> regards,
 >>>>>> ----------------
 >>>>>> Tomonari Katsumata
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>> (2014/02/21 16:50), Mikko Tiihonen wrote:
 >>>>>>> Before the patch the functionality was (if binaryTransfer=true):
 >>>>>>> - prepared statements after prepareThreshold were done in binary
 >> mode
 >>>>>>> - forceBinary=true could be enabled to force all statements
 >> (prepared +
 >>>>>> one-shot) to be executed in binary mode (at cost of extra
round-trip)
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> After the patch in question (if binaryTransfer=true):
 >>>>>>> - All prepared statements have extra round-trip before on first use
 >> and
 >>>>>> are immediately in binary mode
 >>>>>>> - forceBinary=true can be enabled to force also one-shot statements
 >> to
 >>>>>> be executed in binary mode (at cost of extra round-trip)
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> Since there are users that use prepared statements in one-shot way
 >>>>>> (prepare+execute+discard) the patch adds a mandatory extra
 >> round-trip for
 >>>>>> them.
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> As a side note: the forceBinary is meant only as a debug flag (used
 >> for
 >>>>>> example in pgjdbc tests), not for production use.
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> So the only thing the before-state could not do was to use binary
 >>>>>> transfers for the first prepared statement execution. This is
because
 >>>>>> setting prepareThreshold=0 disables the prepare instead of preparing
 >> before
 >>>>>> first use.
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> I propose we revert that patch and instead add support for
 >>>>>> prepareThreshold=-1 which would force prepare+describe to be done
 >> even for
 >>>>>> the first execution. That would allow users to keep controlling the
 >>>>>> behavior instead of forcing binary transfers immediately?
 >>>>>>> Alternatively we can separate the binary transfer logic from
 >> statement
 >>>>>> prepare threshold and add a separate binaryThreshold.
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> -Mikko
 >>>>>>> ________________________________________
 >>>>>>> From: pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.org <pgsql-jdbc-owner@postgresql.
 >> org>
 >>>>>> on behalf of Tomonari Katsumata <katsumata.tomonari@po.ntts.co.jp>
 >>>>>>> Sent: 21 February 2014 08:40
 >>>>>>> To: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
 >>>>>>> Subject: [JDBC] About binaryTransfer.
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> Hi,
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> I have a peformance trouble with 9.3-1100 driver.
 >>>>>>> Running same application(*) with 9.2-1004 and 9.3-1100,
 >>>>>>> It does another behavior.
 >>>>>>> (*) Retrieving 9990 rows with preparedStatement.
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> 9.2-1004:
 >>>>>>> Always flags = 16.
 >>>>>>> ----
 >>>>>>> 14:09:55.730 (1) simple execute,
 >>>>>>> handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement$
 >>>>>> StatementResultHandler@8232a5d,
 >>>>>>> maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=16
 >>>>>>> 14:09:55.878 (1) simple execute,
 >>>>>>> handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement$
 >>>>>> StatementResultHandler@34e671de,
 >>>>>>> maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=16
 >>>>>>> ----
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> 9.3-1100
 >>>>>>> Repeatedly flags = 48 and 16.
 >>>>>>> The count of "flags=16" is same with 9.2-1004, so
 >>>>>>> "flags=48" is extra executing.
 >>>>>>> ----
 >>>>>>> 14:20:34.991 (1) simple execute,
 >>>>>>> handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement$
 >>>>>> StatementResultHandler@19cdbc83,
 >>>>>>> maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=48
 >>>>>>> 14:20:34.992 (1) simple execute,
 >>>>>>> handler=org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement$
 >>>>>> StatementResultHandler@304b0cbc,
 >>>>>>> maxRows=0, fetchSize=0, flags=16
 >>>>>>> ----
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> This change has caused by below commit.
 >>>>>>> https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/commit/
 >> dbf76c2d662896c5703cf20d7362e1
 >>>>>> d061e1e43f
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> It seems that binarytransfer mode is good at dealing with
 >>>>>>> big-data(many columns?many rows?), but some packets are
 >>>>>>> sent/received for this function, right?
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> I want to make 9.3-1100 driver do old behavior like 9.2-1004.
 >>>>>>> What can I do ?
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> regards,
 >>>>>>> ----------------
 >>>>>>> Tomonari Katsumata
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>>
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