Re: bytea performance tweak

Oliver Jowett wrote:

Hi,

> On 23 June 2011 02:17, Andreas Schmitz <schmitz@occamlabs.de> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering why the protocol uses such an encoding anyway. Wouldn't
> > it be a lot faster just sending the bytes as they are?
>
> We can request binary-format data, which for bytea is indeed just the
> raw bytes, but the problem is that it's all or nothing: if we request
> binary data we have to handle binary results for all datatypes, not
> just bytea (because the request is per-column and generally the driver
> doesn't know the column type at the point it makes the request)
> Some progress has been made with that, but it's not production-ready
> yet I think.

ok, understood. Is there a timeline for fully supporting the binary
protocol?

Best regards, Andreas