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.
regards, tom lane