> > I don't think the main intent of the new wire protocol is to
> > "increase the speed of data transfers" -- does it actually make a
> > significant improvement? (I'm not sure, having been away for the
> > summer).
>
> Somebody else inserted this; I'll let them defend it.
See the archvies for a bit more on this, but the new wire protocol
makes it possible to send binary data to/from the server w/o having to
have it escaped on either end. For databases that are storing imagery
data (think MRI's), this is non-trivial when many other DBs are/were
dog slow at doing this kind of stuff.
-sc
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Sean Chittenden