Re: Status of binary protocol usage?

Tom Lane-2 wrote:
>
> aaime74 <andrea.aime@gmail.com> writes:
>> A profiler informs me that quite a big of time is spent in the
>> PGBytea.toBytes(byte[]s) method, which is used only if the transfer
>> occurrs in text mode.
>
> That hardly seems like a killer argument for switching to binary
> (which has got a boatload of disadvantages of its own).  Surely a
> bit of code-optimization work can fix that.
>

Hum, interesting. What would be the boatload of disadvantages? Is there
any reference to those?
Do you have any idea why doing more processing (Base64 encoding/decoding)
leads to significant better performance? :)

Cheers
Andrea

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