On Wednesday 18 February 2004 09:18, you wrote:
> Maybe if bandwidth is a restriction the base64 solution
> saves some bandwith, since base64 file is ~ 1.3 times larger
> than the original, whereas the escaped octal representation
> will be ~ 4 times larger.
If you use libpq's v3 protocol with binary format (PostgreSQL 7.4+), the
overhead is minimal both ways.
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Igor Shevchenko