| From: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Postgresql Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Draft #6: Semi-Final |
| Date: | 2003-08-14 17:25:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20030814172505.GA59959@perrin.int.nxad.com |
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> > I don't think the main intent of the new wire protocol is to
> > "increase the speed of data transfers" -- does it actually make a
> > significant improvement? (I'm not sure, having been away for the
> > summer).
>
> Somebody else inserted this; I'll let them defend it.
See the archvies for a bit more on this, but the new wire protocol
makes it possible to send binary data to/from the server w/o having to
have it escaped on either end. For databases that are storing imagery
data (think MRI's), this is non-trivial when many other DBs are/were
dog slow at doing this kind of stuff.
-sc
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Sean Chittenden
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