Kalador Tech Support <support@kalador.com> writes:
> When run from a browser, accessing an Apache webserver, the results
> displayed were:
> fetch time = 3.632ms, 296043 bytes
> unescape time = 70625.518ms, 296043 bytes
Is it possible that you are relying on an old (like 7.3) libpq?
I find this in the CVS logs:
2003-06-11 21:17 momjian
* src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c: I found the libpq function
PGunescapeBytea a little slow. It was taking a minute and a half to
decode a 500Kb on a fairly fast machine. I think the culprit is
sscanf.
...
The new function is significantly faster on my machine with the
JPEGs being decoded in less than a second. I attach a modified
libpq example program that I used for my testing.
Ben Lamb.
regards, tom lane