Re: PATCH: Batch/pipelining support for libpq

>  Of course, this is a
> relatively minor performance issue (especially when compared to the overall
> performance benefits provided by batching), and providing an API distinction
> between adding a Sync and flushing the buffer may over-complicate the API. I
> just thought I'd mention it.

Unnecessary IMO. If we really want to add it later we'd probably do so
by setting a "no flush on endbatch" mode and adding an explicit flush
call. But I expect TCP_CORK will satisfy all realistic needs.

> When it's about to send a batch, Npgsql knows whether it's in an (explicit)
> transaction or not (by examining the transaction indicator on the last
> ReadyForQuery message it received). If it's not in an (explicit)
> transaction, it automatically inserts a Sync message after every Execute. If
> some statement happens to be a BEGIN, it will be executed as a normal
> statement and so on. The only issue is that if an error occurs after a
> sneaked-in BEGIN, all subsequent statements will fail, and all have the Sync
> messages Npgsql inserted. The end result will be a series of errors that
> will be raised up to the user, but this isn't fundamentally different from
> the case of a simple auto-commit batch containing multiple failures (because
> of unique constraint violation or whatever) - multiple errors is something
> that will have to be handled in any case.

I'm a bit hesitant about how this will interact with multi-statements
containing embedded BEGIN or COMMIT, where a single protocol message
contains multiple ; delimited queries. But at least at this time of
night I can't give a concrete problematic example.