Date: 11 Dec 2002 00:21:50 -0700
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From: "Jason E. Stewart" <jason@openinformatics.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ["Dean Arnold" <darnold@earthlink.net>] Re: Array Binding Status?
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Hi,

I never heard back about this.

Does anyone know if the postgres C API and the server backend have the
ability to handle this?

Thanks,
jas.

"Jason E. Stewart" <jason@openinformatics.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm included a piece of a discussion that was had on the Perl DBI
> mailing list a while back. A new feature was added that enable
> applications to pass off arrays of placeholder values for each
> placeholder in a prepared SQL statement instead of only a single value
> for each placeholder.
> 
> This meant a significant speed-up for things like large INSERT
> statements.
> 
> My question is does Postgres have the necessary abilities to handle
> this feature?
> 
> Thanks ahead of time,
> jas.
> 
> From: "Dean Arnold" <darnold@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Array Binding Status?
> To: "DBI-dev" <dbi-dev@perl.org>, Andrew_Brown@adc.com,
>   "Jason E. Stewart" <jason@openinformatics.com>,
>   "Jeff Urlwin" <jurlwin@bellatlantic.net>
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 07:08:35 -0800
> 
> > > Thanks Andrew,
> > > 
> > > The question isn't whether the current DBD::Pg supports the behavior,
> > > it doesn't, the issue is whether the Postgres C API has an ability to
> > > do these array-based inserts.
> > > 
> > > I would definately have to modify DBD::Pg's C code to support this. 
> > > 
> > > I was just wondering from Dean and Jeff what kind of C API methods did
> > > they need to use to get it working for ODBC.
> > 
> > It's all part of the ODBC spec/API. 
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> 
> Or check the Oracle OCI array binding (the function names
> escape me at the moment).
> 
> The deeper issue is whether the DBMS supports a bulk
> operation, esp in a transactional context. E.g., Teradata
> has bulk operation utilities ala SQLLoader, but
> currently doesn't support bulk operations in a
> regular SQL connection. 
> 
> While adding an iterative
> query execution into the C API code will help some,
> the big boosts occur when the DBMS can gobble
> up a stream of 1,000+ placeholder tuples at once
> (and esp. for INSERT, dump 'em directly to disk),
> as e.g. Oracle and DB2 do.
> 
> Dean
> 
> 
> 
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