Re: Optimization for updating foreign tables in Postgres FDW

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Etsuro Fujita
<fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> How about we encapsulate the while (PQisBusy(...)) loop into a new
>> function pgfdw_get_result(), which can be called after first calling
>> PQsendQueryParams()?  So then this code will say dmstate->result =
>> pgfdw_get_result(dmstate->conn).  And we can do something similar for
>> the other call to PQexecParams() in create_cursor().  Then let's also
>> add something like pgfdw_exec_query() which calls PQsendQuery() and
>> then pgfdw_get_result, and use that to replace all of the existing
>> calls to PQexec().
>>
>> Then all the SQL postgres_fdw executes would be interruptible, not
>> just the new stuff.
>
> Seems like a good idea.  Will do.

When will you do this?  We are on a bit of a time budget here.

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