Bug #46471 [Asn->Opn]: Performance problem when reading XML columns
Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46471&edit=1
ID: 46471
Updated by: kalle@php.net
Reported by: rgpublic at gmx dot net
Summary: Performance problem when reading XML columns
-Status: Assigned
+Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: OCI8 related
Operating System: Linux
PHP Version: 5.2SVN-2009-10-19 (snap)
-Assigned To: sixd
+Assigned To:
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
Previous Comments:
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[2009-10-20 17:44:49] rgpublic at gmx dot net
Thank you for your answer. Results vary depending on the performance
of the database server. As I have written I can generally say the
simple approach always takes about twice the time. I assume you mean
with "a lot more function calls" that oci_fetch_array is called in a
while-loop causing round-trips to the database-server. That is right
of course, but oci_set_prefetch should solve this at least
partically, and it does not seem to have any influence. And without
LOB columns oci_fetch_array is MUCH faster. The actual payload data
(i.e. without internal overhead) transferred between server and
client is obviously the same with both approaches. So that leaves us
with the following facts:
1) The reason for the slowness is not that reading the lobs is slow.
Otherwise the PL/SQL script wouldnt be able to get it faster
2) The reason is not that the network speed is limited. Otherwise
both aprroaches would have the same speed
IMO this leaves the whole chain down to the OCI module out of the
picture. So the reason for this slowness lies in the OCI module.
That's why I filed this bug. When you use Oracle's XML features to
store lots of XML documents in a large table and want to retrieve
many of them this slowness is causing a lot of problems. Simply
reading back the data exactly as you have stored it in the database
before shouldnt cause such a huge performance penalty IMHO.
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[2009-10-20 10:19:51] jani@php.net
Exactly what results do you get? And why do you really think it should be any faster, considering
you're doing a lot more function calls with the "simple" approach?
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[2009-10-19 21:12:49] rgpublic at gmx dot net
Still happens with recent snapshot.
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[2009-10-19 15:00:08] jani@php.net
Please try using this snapshot:
http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz
For Windows:
http://windows.php.net/snapshots/
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[2008-11-03 14:24:12] rgpublic at gmx dot net
Example source code:
http://oberon.q-one-hosting.com/ocidemo.txt
This script does the following: Create a table with an XML column and fills it with data. Now, the
simple approach to read back the data would be:
SELECT mytab.xml.getClobVal() AS xml FROM xmltest mytab;
This approach takes about twice the time as the second example which does the reading inside a
PL/SQL function and concatenates the result separated by a chr(0)-character i.e. transferring the
whole data in a single string. I'm wondering why there is such a loss of performance.
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