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client interfaces

От
"David Parker"
Дата:
Is there anything like a client library for postgres that does not use tcp/ip as the protocol? As part of the performance tuning of our application, the question was posed to me whether there was a more "direct" sort of API that would not require going through the tcp/ip stack. I assume the answer to this is "no", and I see no hint of anything in the source code, but I thought I would ask the question, just to be sure.
 
Thanks.

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Re: client interfaces

От
Tom Lane
Дата:
"David Parker" <dparker@tazznetworks.com> writes:
> Is there anything like a client library for postgres that does not use
> tcp/ip as the protocol?

Local connections generally go through Unix sockets, which is not the
tcp stack.

            regards, tom lane

Re: client interfaces

От
Michael Fuhr
Дата:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:51:09AM -0400, David Parker wrote:
>
> Is there anything like a client library for postgres that does not use
> tcp/ip as the protocol? As part of the performance tuning of our
> application, the question was posed to me whether there was a more
> "direct" sort of API that would not require going through the tcp/ip
> stack. I assume the answer to this is "no", and I see no hint of
> anything in the source code, but I thought I would ask the question,
> just to be sure.

PostgreSQL supports connections over Unix-domain (AF_UNIX) sockets
if your system does.  They still use the socket interface, but
they're typically faster than a TCP connection.

--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

Re: client interfaces

От
Bruno Wolff III
Дата:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:51:09 -0400,
  David Parker <dparker@tazznetworks.com> wrote:
> Is there anything like a client library for postgres that does not use
> tcp/ip as the protocol? As part of the performance tuning of our
> application, the question was posed to me whether there was a more
> "direct" sort of API that would not require going through the tcp/ip
> stack. I assume the answer to this is "no", and I see no hint of
> anything in the source code, but I thought I would ask the question,
> just to be sure.

You can use domain sockets when on the same host as the server.