Re: how to fix problem then when two queries run at the same time, it takes longer to complete then if run in sequence

On 31 Jul 2008, at 10:29AM, Miernik wrote:

> Richard Huxton  wrote:
>>> I just installed pgpool2 and whoaaa! Everything its like about 3  
>>> times
>>> faster! My application are bash scripts using psql -c "UPDATE ...".
>>
>> Probably spending most of their time setting up a new connection,  
>> then
>> clearing it down again.
>
> If I do it in Python it could do all queries in the same connection,  
> so
> should be faster? Besides that 'psql' is written in perl, so its also
> heavy, by not using psql I get rid of perl library in RAM. Also the
> script uses wget to poll some external data sources a lot, also
> needlessly opening new connection to the webserver, so I want to make
> the script save the http connection, which means I must get rid of  
> wget.
> Maybe I should write some parts in C?
>
> BTW, doesn't there exist any tool does what "psql -c" does, but is
> written in plain C, not perl? I was looking for such psql replacement,
> but couldn't find any.


?

file `which psql`
/usr/bin/psql: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1  
(SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9,  
stripped

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Regards
Theo