Re: Geoserver-PostGIS performance problems

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Vinicius Abrahao <vinnix.bsd@gmail.com>
Cc: Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>, Riaan van den Dool <rvddool@csir.co.za>, Brett Walker <brett.walker@geometryit.com>, "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-07-25T19:26:15Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Vinicius Abrahao <vinnix.bsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Note that it seems the preparing/planning interaction was not the
>>> poster's actual problem, but it may have been yours. As Tom Lane notes
>>> in that thread, this should get better in 9.2.
>>
>> jdbc should get some blame too -- it's really aggressive about
>> preparing queries.
>>
>
> indeed!
> Is there any reason for that?

IMNSHO it's an oversight in the core JDBC design dating back to the
beginning: you have two basic choices for executing SQL.  The
unparameterized Statement or the parameterized PreparedStatement.
There should have been a 'ParamaterizedStatement' that gave the
expectation of paramaterization without setting up and permanent
server side structures to handle the query; libpq makes this
distinction and it works very well.  Of course, there are various ways
to work around this but the point stands.

merlin