Re: BYTEA transport

Paul,

See the other emails on the list today that discussed this same topic.

thanks,
--Barry

Paul Ramsey wrote:

>I have been trying to figure out how BYTEA goes across the wire from the
>backend to the front. It is not clear to me whether they transit in
>their huge ASCII format, or in a binary format. Sending an object across
>this wire in ASCII would (a) fluff it by a couple of factors and (b) lay
>a string-i-fication overhead on the server and parse-i-fication overhead
>on the client. I see some 'binaryCursor' booleans in the driver, but am
>not sure how to use binary cursors in the context of a JDBC connection.
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>Any clarification on how to do binary transport using JDBC?
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>Thanks,
>Paul
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