On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that making a resolver process have connection caches to each > foreign server for a while can reduce the overhead of connection to > foreign servers. These connections will be invalidated by DDLs. Also, > most of the time we spend to commit a distributed transaction is the > interaction between the coordinator and foreign servers using > two-phase commit protocal. So I guess the time in signalling to a > resolver process would not be a big overhead.
I agree. Also, in the future, we might try to allow connections to be shared across backends. I did some research on this a number of years ago and found that every operating system I investigated had some way of passing a file descriptor from one process to another -- so a shared connection cache might be possible. Also, we might port the whole backend to use threads, and then this problem goes way. But I don't have time to write that patch this week. :-) It's possible that we might find that neither of the above approaches are practical and that the performance benefits of resolving the transaction from the original connection are large enough that we want to try to make it work anyhow. However, I think we can postpone that work to a future time. Any general solution to this problem at least needs to be ABLE to resolve transactions at a later time from a different session, so let's get that working first, and then see what else we want to do. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
