On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:07:12PM +0000, Rodrigo Madera wrote: > 1) Is there any way for me to send the binary field directly without needing > escape codes?
In 7.4 and later the client/server protocol supports binary data transfer. If you're programming with libpq you can use PQexecParams() to send and/or retrieve values in binary instead of text. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-MAIN APIs built on top of libpq or that implement the protcol themselves might provide hooks to this capability; check your documentation. What language and API are you using? See also COPY BINARY: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-copy.html > 2) Will this mean that the client actually wastes my network bandwidth > converting binary data to text? Or does the client transparently manage > this? Binary transfer sends data in binary, not by automatically converting to and from text. -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
