[syslog-ng] abandon libdbi and write a new sql driver?

[Matthew Hall]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:12:37PM +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> But I don't see anything against libdbi per-se, within syslog-ng a
> similar API would be needed to cover all database APIs, so why reinvent
> the wheel?

Not having prepared statements means every insert requires a parse.

That cuts the performance of transactional DBs a lot.

Particularly Oracle suffers from this because generating too many statements overflows its memory pools.

> -- 
> Bazsi

Matthew.